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for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3INTRODUCTION. The author of
this work, Benjamin Beddome, is known to the denomination, in this
country, chiefly by means of his excellent hymns. To those who are
familiar with the effusions of his poetical genius, and who are
conscious of having derived spiritual benefit from them, some
further account of the author and of his writings will doubtless be
acceptable. Benjamin Beddome was the son of the Rev. John Beddome,
pastor of the Baptist Church in the Pithay, Bristol; and was born
at Henley, January 23, 1717. He was baptized in London, by the Rev.
Samuel Wilson, of Prescott Street, in the year 1739; and by that
church, the mother of many illustrious sons, he was called to the
work of the ministry. Having spent some time as a student under the
Rev. Bernard Foskett, of the Bristol Academy, and afterwards at the
Independent Academy, Mile-end, London, he went to
Bourton-on-the-Water, in July, 1740; and was ordained pastor of the
church, September 23, 1743. Mr. Foskett, his former tutor, gave the
charge, founded upon 1 Tim. iv. 12, " Let no man despise thy
youth;" Dr. Joseph Stennett preached to the church from Heb. xiii.
17, " Obey them that havethe rule over you;" Messrs. Hayden, Cook,
and Fuller of Abingdon prayed; and Mr. Foskett offered the
ordination prayer, with the laying on of hands by the pastors. The
early intercourse of Beddome with those pious and learned men,
Wilson and Foskett, exercised a happy influence in forming his
character and directing his subsequent pursuits. Their counsels and
instructions stimulated him to the acquisition of sound and liberal
knowledge, while their own example presented a forcible
illustration of the high uses which it might be made to subserve,
in the ministry of reconciliation.* He became an indefatigable
student; and soon acquired a distinguished repu...
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