Benjamin Beddome
Benjamin Beddome (23 January 1717 – 23 September 1795) was an English Baptist minister and hymnist.
Life
He was born in Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England, the son of Baptist minister John Beddome. Initially apprenticed to a surgeon in Bristol, in 1739 he joined the Baptist church in Prescott Street, and at the call of his church devoted himself to the work of Christian ministry. In 1740 he began to preach at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire and became one of the best known Baptist ministers in western England, for his literary attainments.[1]
In 1770, Beddome received an M.A. degree from Providence College, Rhode Island. He died and is buried in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England.
Works
In 1752, Beddome wrote A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism, by Way of Question and Answer.
Beddome long wrote a hymn each week to be sung after his Sunday sermon. Though his hymns were not originally intended for publication, he allowed 13 of them to be included in the Bristol Baptist Collection of Ash & Evans, and 36 in Rippon’s Selection. In 1817, a posthumous collection of his hymns was published as Hymns Adapted to Public Worship or Family Devotion, containing 830 pieces. Today a number of Beddome's hymns are included in the Sacred Harp.
Robert Hall wrote:
The man of taste will be gratified with the beauty and original turns of thought which many of them exhibit, while the experimental Christian will often perceive the most secret movements of his soul strikingly delineated, and sentiments pourtrayed which will find their echo in every heart.
References
- ^ Lowther, W. B. "Beddome, Benjamin (1717–1795)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1921. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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