Let Others Worldly Riches Prize

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Let others worldly riches prize

Author: Benjamin Beddome
Tune: NUN DANKET ALL (Crüger 16512)
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1 Let others worldly riches prize,
I scorn this earthly clod;
My portion is above the skies,
My Savior and my God.

2 In all that men call good and great,
No pleasure can I find;
A lofty house, or large estate,
Can ne’er content the mind.

3 Were the Peruvian mountains mine,
With all their hidden store,
Did I in gold and jewels shine,
I still should wish for more.

4 Not Crœsus’ wealth, nor Cæsar’s power,
Were I of both possessed,
Could inward peace and joy restore,
Or ease the troubled breast.

5 Restless I rove from place to place,
And search from pole to pole,
’Till Jesus shows His lovely face,
There’s nought can cheer my soul.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16315

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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:	Let others worldly riches prize
Title:	Let Others Worldly Riches Prize
Author:	Benjamin Beddome
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Source:	Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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NUN DANKET ALL (Crüger 16512)

Composed by Johann Crüger (PHH 42) as a setting for Paul Gerhardt's "Nun danket all’ und bringet Ehr," GRÄFENBERG was first published in the 1647 edition of Crüger's Praxis Pietatis Melica. The tune is arbitrarily named after a water-cure spa in Silesia, Austria, which became famous in the 1820…

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