Simon Browne was a dissenting minister and theologian. He was born in Shepton Mallet, in 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 Old Jewry in London.
He published a volume of sermons was produced 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.[1]
Browne abandoned the ministry in late 1723 due to a sudden depression, and returned to Shepton Mallet where he continued to write, including books for children, translations of Latin and Greek poetry, and an abstract of the Bible. He also published three theological works: A Fit Rebuke to a Ludicrous Infidel, A Defence of the Religion of Nature and the Christian Revelation and Sober … Disquisition Concerning … the Trinity.
He died in Shepton Mallet in 1732 and was buried in the meeting-house there.