Digital Verbum Edition
The Song of the New Creation is a collection of over a hundred hymns on a wide variety of topics; such as new creation, discipline, the cross, praise, and love.
In the Logos edition of The Song of the New Creation, all Scripture references link to original language texts and English Bible translations in your digital library and display on mouseover. Logos’ advanced tools make this resource the most useful edition for sermon preparation, theological research, and historical study.
His devotional pieces are poured forth with almost as great profuseness, and they are of an excellence that will bear comparison with the bulk of Wesley’s hymns.
—British Quarterly Review
. . . they will be read with pleasure. The whole volume will be read and gratefully enjoyed by many.
—The Evangelical Repository and United Presbyterian Review
Horatius Bonar was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a family with a long history of ministry in the Church of Scotland. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1838 (where he studied under Dr. Thomas Chalmers), Bonar was ordained and became pastor of the North Parish, Kelso, where he remained for 28 years. He joined the Free Church of Scotland after “the Great Disruption” of 1843, and in 1853 he earned a doctor of divinity degree from the University of Aberdeen. In 1867, he took over ministry duties at Chalmers Memorial Church in Edinburgh, and in 1883 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. A prolific author, he wrote and edited numerous books, biographies, articles, poems, tracts, and over 600 hymns. Horatius Bonar died on May 31, 1889.