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Text:When Satan Saw His Rebel Host
Author:Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Tune:BRESLAU
Media:MIDI file

15981. When Satan Saw His Rebel Host

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.

Text Information
First Line: When Satan saw his rebel host
Title: When Satan Saw His Rebel Host
Author: Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: ARIZONA by Robert H. Earnshaw, AUCTORITATE SAECULI - Angers church tune, WOODWORTH by William B. Bradbury
Tune Information
Name: BRESLAU
Meter: LM
Key: A Major
Source: As Hymnodus Sacer (Leipzig, Germany, 1625)
Copyright: Public Domain



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