Awake, Believing Souls, Awake

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Awake, believing souls, awake

Author: Benjamin Beddome
Tune: EAGLEY (Walch)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Awake, believing souls, awake,
Your solemn vows renew,
To Him who died upon the cross,
And pleads in Heav’n for you.

2 Awake, my dull inactive soul,
Nor more indulge delay;
Let acts of piety and love
Mark each revolving day.

3 Each day of this new year, would I
Devote, oh God to Thee;
Each day of this new year, do Thou
Impart new strength to me.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16087

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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:	Awake, believing souls, awake
Title:	Awake, Believing Souls, Awake
Author:	Benjamin Beddome
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Source:	Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain