The Fall

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When Satan saw his rebel host

Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Tune: BRESLAU
Published in 1 hymnal

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	Ten Chorale Improvisations, Set 1

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1 When Satan saw his rebel host,
His cause, and Heav’n for ever lost,
Malice and wrath his mind possessed,
And fury burned within his breast.

2 He knew how vain th’ attempts to rise,
With impious rage against the skies;
But bent on ill, another way
He turns his arms, and wins the day.

3 ‘Twas in a dark unguarded hour,
That our first parents felt his power;
Soft innocence and virtue fell
An easy prey to death and hell.

4 Ye sons of God, the tempter fly,
Nor the unequal contest try;
By promised bliss the fiend decoys—
First he allures, and then destroys.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15981

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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:	When Satan saw his rebel host
Title:	The Fall
Author:	Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Source:	Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818)
Copyright:	Public domain