Sanctification

How greatly blessed are they

Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Published in 0 hymnals

Representative Text

1. How greatly blessed are they,
Whose garments now are clean;
Washed in the fountain of that blood,
Which purifies from sin.

2. Their once rebellious souls
Are now by grace subdued;
So tyrant lusts shall hence remain,
Or slavish fears intrude.

3. Their thoughts and words and ways
Are ordered by the Lord;
Awake, our hearts, to lofty songs,
His wondrous deeds record.

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Author: Benjamin Beddome

Benjamin Beddome was born at Henley-in Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, he received the degree of M.A. from the Baptist College in Providence, Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommendation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a "writer worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: How greatly blessed are they
Title: Sanctification
Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Source: Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Copyright: Public domain
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