Condemnation of the Wicked

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Sinners in vain expect

Author: Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Tune: SCHUMANN (51567)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Sinners in vain expect
Among the just t’appear;
God’s threatening word and flaming sword
Forbid an entrance there.

2 Depart, ye hardened race,
Heav’n’s lofty gates are barred;
Nor can you force a passage through,
Or bribe the watchful guard.

3 Time was that Jesus spread
His kind inviting arms;
But you rejected all His calls,
And slighted all His charms.

4 The Savior you despised,
Now dooms you down to hell;
There with confounding horror seized,
ln fiery deeps to dwell.

5 How will your hearts endure?
How can your hands be strong,
When He shall vengeance take, to whom
All vengeance doth belong.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15659

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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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Text Information

First Line:	Sinners in vain expect
Title:	Condemnation of the Wicked
Author:	Benjamin Beddome (1818)
Meter:	6.6.8.6
Copyright:	Public domain

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Tune

SCHUMANN (51567)

SCHUMANN is one of many hymn tunes arranged by Lowell Mason (PHH 96). He first published the arrangement in Cantica Laudis (1850), a collection he edited with George J. Webb (PHH 559). First called WHITE, the tune was marked "Arr. from Schumann" and was thus ascribed to the German composer Robert A.…

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