Thomas Gibbons

Life

Born: 31 May 1720

Died: 22 February 1785

Biography

Thomas Gibbons was an English dissenting clergyman and hymnist.

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Settings of text by Thomas Gibbons

• Harts (Angels! Roll the rock away!) (Benjamin Milgrove)
• Now let our souls on wings sublime (Thomas Clark)
• Sicily (Oliver Holden)

Publications

Prose works

• Calvinism and Nonconformity defended, 1740
• Sermons on various subjects, 1762 (including a hymn appended to each of the 15 sermons)
• Rhetoric, 1767
• Female Worthies, 2 vols., 1777

Poetic works

• Juvenilia; Poems on various subjects of Devotion and Virtue, 1750
• Hymns adapted to Divine worship in two books … partly collected front various authors, but principally composed by Thomas Gibbons, 1769
• The Christian Minister in three poetical epistles to Philander, 1772
• An English version of the Latin Epitaphs on the Nonconformist's Memorial, 1775
• Select Portions of Scripture, and Remarkable Occurrences, 1781
• Hymns adapted to Divine worship in two books … by Thomas Gibbons, 1784.

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