How Painful Is The Task

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How painful is the task

Author: Benjamin Beddome
Tune: AYLESBURY (Chetham)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 How painful is the task,
A member to disown;
Once by the church esteemed and loved,
And as a brother known.

2 Could aught prevent the deed,
The solemn deed declared,
How happy it for us had been,
From such a duty spared.

3 But oh, the love of Christ,
The love of truth demands,
This needful, painful sacrifice,
This duty at our hands.

4 Should we at sin connive,
Or any evil spare,
How could we give account at last,
When Jesus shall appear.

5 His eyes as flames of fire,
Search all the churches through,
Naught can be hidden from His sight,
Though veiled from mortal view.

6 To Him may we ourselves,
In faithfulness approve;
And while we mourn our humbled state,
Wait His reviving love.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16122

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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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First Line:	How painful is the task
Title:	How Painful Is The Task
Author:	Benjamin Beddome
Meter:	6.6.8.6
Source:	Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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AYLESBURY (Chetham)

Also called: WIRKSWORTH WIRKSWORTH was first published in John Chetham's collection A Book of Psalmody (1718) and gained its present shape in James Green's Book of Psalm Tunes (1724). Set in minor tonality, WIRKSWORTH has a folk-like charm. The tune's name derives from the town Wirksworth in Derbysh…

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