Victory over Satan

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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..88.
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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