A Broken Heart, and a Bleeding Savior

Unto Thine altar, Lord

Author: Benjamin Beddome (1787)
Tune: ARION
Published in 60 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Now to thine altar, Lord,
A broken heart I bring;
And wilt thou graciously accept
Of such a worthless thing?

2 To Christ, the bleeding Lamb,
My faith directs her eyes;
All other offerings are vain,
But not his sacrifice.

3 That moment he expired
The law was satisfied,
And now, to its severest claims,
I answer, Jesus died!

Source: The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church #423

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 >

Text Information

First Line: Unto Thine altar, Lord
Title: A Broken Heart, and a Bleeding Savior
Author: Benjamin Beddome (1787)
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Source: Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818); John Rippon, A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, 1787
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Unto Thine altar, Lord . B. Beddome. [Lent.] Appealed in Rippon's Baptist Selection, 1787, No. 356, in 3 stanzas of 4 lines, and later in other hymnals. In Beddome's posthumous Hymns, 1817, No. 482, it begins "Now to Thine altar, Lord."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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