View The Expiring Saint!

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View the expiring saint!

Author: Benjamin Beddome
Tune: FESTAL SONG
Published in 1 hymnal

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	For Love of Country

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1 View the expiring saint!
When outward comforts cease,
God is his all sufficient help,
And gives him inward peace.

2 Varied his course has been,
With many clouds o’ercast;
Though oft distressed with doubts and fears,
He conquers all at last.

3 With grateful heart he views
What grace for him has done,
Yet for acceptance he depends
On Jesus’ blood alone.

4 Not so the man profane,
Most awful is his close;
Despairing, in the grave he sinks,
Amidst foreboding woes.

5 The deathless worm shall gnaw,
The quenchless fire consume,
And wrath in all its direful forms
Is his eternal doom.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16257

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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:	View the expiring saint!
Title:	View The Expiring Saint!
Author:	Benjamin Beddome
Source:	Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain