Born: Ap­ril 2, 1762, Buck­ing­ham, Eng­land.

Died: Ap­ril 15, 1816, Stock­well, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Buried: Rec­tor’s vault, St Anne’s, Black­fri­ars, Eng­land.

Goode re­ceived his ear­ly ed­u­ca­tion first in Buck­ing­ham, then un­der Rev. T. Bull, a Dis­sent­ing min­is­ter at New­port Pag­nel. Hav­ing a strong in­clin­a­tion to the min­is­try, he left his fa­ther’s bus­i­ness and, in 1780, en­tered Mag­da­len Hall at Ox­ford (BA 1784, MA 1787). On tak­ing Ho­ly Or­ders in 1786, he be­came Cur­ate of Ab­bots Lang­ley, Her­tford­shire; then of St. Ann’s, Black­friars; and sub­se­quent­ly Rec­tor of the lat­ter, add­ing there­to one or two lec­ture­ships. Goode’s in­ter­est in for­eign mis­sions took a prac­ti­cal turn in his help­ing found the Church Mis­sion­ary So­ci­e­ty. His works in­clude:

• Sermons, 1812
• An Entire New Ver­sion of the Book of Psalms, 1811, 1813, 1816
• Essays on all the Script­ur­al Names and Ti­tles of Christ, re­print­ed from the Christ­ian Guard­i­an, 1813-1816
• Works, pub­lished to­ge­ther with a Me­moir in six vol­umes, 1822.

Sources

Hymns

1. Crown His Head with Endless Blessing
2. Far as the Isles Extend
3. How Blest Are They Whose Hearts Sincere
4. Who Blest the Man with Mercy Crowned
5. If the Lord Had Not Heard, May Israel Now Say
6. Jesus, with Thy Salva­tion blest
7. Let Thy Grace, Lord, Make Me
8. Lo in Gethsemane’s Dark Shade
9. Lo! The Mighty God Appearing
10. Lord, I Delight to Find My Place
11. Lord of Mercy, Just and King
12. Lord, Thy Church Hath Seen Thee Rise
13. Now Let Our Songs Arise
14. O My God, by Thee Forsaken
15. Prepare a New Song Jehovah to Praise
16. Songs Anew of Honor Framing
17. Thou Gracious God and Kind
18. Thou Sinners Boldly Join
19. With Songs of Grateful Praise