In heaven the heart o'erflows with love

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In heaven the heart o'erflows with love

Author: Benjamin Beddome
Tune: TRURO (Williams)
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 In Heav’n the heart o’erflows with love,
And every eye beholds its God;
The passions now no longer rove,
The soul is washed in Jesus’ blood.

2 Sin is for ever banished thence,
Ecstatic raptures fill the mind;
The low delights of flesh and sense
Are changed for pleasures all refined.

3 Oceans of bliss incessant roll,
Nor Satan tempts, nor tyrants frown;
No transient clouds o’erspread the soul
And guilt and grief are never known.

4 Oh could we drop this cumbrous clay,
Soon would we climb the upper road;
On wings of love fly swift away,
Till we shall reach the throne of God.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16281

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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:	In heaven the heart o'erflows with love
Author:	Benjamin Beddome
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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TRURO (Williams)

TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…

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