Dr Flexman is one of c 50 authors listed at the start of Kippis 1795 as contributing sacred texts.
After these two pages there follows a long alphabetical list of texts (several hundred of them, including well-known ones). But in what I can obtain on the web of Kippis, we can`t see his pages giving the texts, nor can we tell which texts the authors wrote.
From Hymnary.org, Dr Flexman wrote: Great God to Thee my grateful tongue.
In researching Playford's Divine Companion, I have found psalm paraphrases attributed to Dr. Flexman, and Drummond (no forename given.) Can anyone identify these people please?
Re: Psalm paraphrasers David Welch,Mon Jan 9 2:44pm
I now find that many pages of Kippis have downloaded, but for some it says "no image available". I have only spotted one text attributed to Dr Flexman, at No 163, Great God to thee my grateful tongue.
Well now we know the two names appear in 1701, I can only proffer William Drummond of Hawthornden 1585-1649. His translation of St Ambrose`s 4th century hymn appears in RCH (No 4): O Trinity, O... more
Julian's Hymnology seems to confirm that it is William Drummond that we are looking at. There is a surprisingly wide variety of hymnodists and psalmodists represented in The Divine Companion. I... more
It seems Drummond mostly wrote on non-spiritual themes, but some poems with Christian content are in his Urania collection. Maybe you could find your Playford text in this, or via the indexes of... more
Given that you are looking at Playford I assumed, possibly wrongly, that George Hay Drummond was not a possibility. I mention him here purely for completeness.