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All knowing God! 'tis Thine to know

Overview of Thomas Scott's eighteenth-century hymn "All knowing God! 'tis Thine to know," centered on charitable judgment.

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"All knowing God! 'tis Thine to know" is an eighteenth-century hymn by Thomas Scott on the theme of charitable judgment. Written in five four-line stanzas, it first appeared as No. 115 in William Enfield's Warrington Selection (1772).

The text found modest adoption in nineteenth-century collections, primarily within Unitarian hymnals. It was frequently altered to open with "All seeing God, 'tis Thine to know" and presented in abridged form, such as in James Martineau's Hymns for the Christian Church and Home (1840) and Bernard Courtauld's Psalms, Hymns, and Anthems (1860).

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