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Ye mourning saints, behold

Representative Text

1 Ye mourn­ing saints, be­hold
The Lamb that once was slain;
See, see Him on the cross ex­pire,
In ago­niz­ing pain.

2 The fruits of glo­ry grow
On that ac­curs­èd tree;
The Sav­ior dies, the sin­ner lives,
His bond­age sets us free.

3 The law He sa­tis­fied,
And paid the debt we owed,
Atoned our guilt, our grief sus­tained,
A vast op­press­ive load.

4 ’Tis from His dy­ing groans,
Our loud ho­san­nas rise;
By faith in Him our souls as­pire
To man­sions in the skies.

5 In our unit­ed songs,
Let us His grace pro­claim;
For us He died and rose again,
Exalted be His name.


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16159

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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: Ye mourning saints, behold
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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Tune

TRENTHAM

Robert Jackson (b, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1842; d. Oldham, 1914) originally, composed TRENTHAM as a setting for Henry W. Baker's "O Perfect Life of Love" (380). Named for a village in Staffordshire, England, close to the town in which Jackson was born, the tune was published with the Baker tex…

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