Victory over Satan

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Satan confined in massy chains

Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Tune: DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (Grenoble)
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	Beneath the Cross

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1 Satan confined in massy chains,
And doomed to everlasting pains,
The awful vengeance dreads and feels,
Which the almighty Thunderer deals.

2 No more can he obtain his will,
No more his dark designs fulfill;
How great soe’er his strength may be,
Yet Christ is stronger far than he.

3 Christ breaks in twain his iron bands,
And rescues captives from his hands;
Treads him beneath their feeble feet,
And makes their victory complete.

4 Exult, ye saints, your voices raise,
And shout your great deliverer’s praise;
Let every tongue and every tribe,
Salvation to the Lamb ascribe.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16106

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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:	Satan confined in massy chains
Title:	Victory over Satan
Author:	Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Source:	Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (Grenoble)

DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (sometimes called GRENOBLE) was published in France in the 1753 Grenoble Antiphoner as a setting for the text "Deus tuorum militum" (“The God of Your Soldiers”). One of the finest French diocesan tunes from the eighteenth century, it represents a departure in Roman Catholic h…

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