Samuel Crossman (1623 – 4 February 1683) was a minister of the Church of England and a hymn writer. He was born at , now known as Bradfield St George, Suffolk, England. Crossman earned a Bachelor of Divinity at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, . After graduation, he ministered to both an Anglican congregation at All Saints, Sudbury, and to a Puritan congregation simultaneously. Crossman sympathized with the Puritan cause, and attended the 1661 Savoy Conference, which attempted to update the Book of Common Prayer so that both Puritans and Anglicans could use it. The conference failed, and the 1662 Act of Uniformity expelled Crossman along with some 2,000 other Puritan-leaning ministers from the Church of England. He renounced his Puritan affiliations shortly afterwards, and was or