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By William Cowper ("Kooper") - 1731-1800 Based on Zechariah 13:1
William Cowper was a famous English writer, his father was a minister, and his mother from royalty. As a child he was "physically frail and emotionally sensitive." His mother died when he was 6; he later remarked that there was never a day he had not mourned his mother's death. William studied law; but when facing the bar exam, he had a nervous breakdown, attempted suicide, and was commtted to an in insane asylum for 18 months. While there, at age 33 (1764), he read Rom. 3:25 and realized forgiveness. In 1767 Cowper moved to where John Newton (author of "Amazing Grace") pastored, and established a long friendship, collaborating in the "Olney Hymns" in 1799.
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