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Let the sinner prize his treasure

Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Tune: KIRK ELLA
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Let the sinner prize his treasure,
I would love things above,
Yielding higher pleasure.

2 Sons of mirth your joys deceive you,
They are vain, will give pain,
And ere long will leave you.

3 Let men thirst for worldly glory,
Court renown, seek a crown,
All is transitory.

4 I shall still prefer my station,
Seek for peace, taste its bliss,
Free from observation

5 They who toil with pain and anguish,
To obtain earthly gain,
Soon will pine and languish.

6 Such the treasure I’m possessing,
Naught on earth can give birth,
To an equal blessing.

7 God my strength will still sustain me,
Though I’m poor, I am sure,
He will not disdain me.

8 May I feel increasing pleasure,
In His ways all my days,
Own Him as my treasure.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16119

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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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