INFORMATION
Simon Browne was a dissenting minister and theologian. He was born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, in 1680.
Browne was preaching by the age of 20, and first became a minister at an independent church in Portsmouth before moving, in 1716, to preach at the Old Jewry meeting-house in London.
He had a volume of sermons published in 1722, and also a collection entitled Hymns and Spiritual Songs, which included “Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove” and “And Now, My Soul, Another Year”.