Benjamin Beddome 1717-1795

Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795) is a largely forgotten 18th Century English Baptist preacher, remembered today only as a minor hymnwriter. For over half a century he served as pastor of the Baptist church meeting at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. He is worth more than a passing glance.

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15/07/2025

More on Richard Haines

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Mr Pickles points out that Beddome's protégé Richard Haines (d 1767) who became the minister at Bradford on Avon, unlike Beddome and oth...
26/06/2025

Two new books on Beddome

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Readers of this blog will be pleased to know that two new books on Beddome have recently appeared or are about to appear. Firsty, a second v...

New Festschrift including essays on Beddome

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“A deep spiritual well”: eighteenth-century Evangelicals & their legacy has just appeared. It is a collection of essays celebrating the ...
07/06/2025

10 works by Particular Baptists against Priestley's unitarianism

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John Butterworth (1727-1803)  A serious address to the Rev Dr Priestley 1790 Lawrence Butterworth Thoughts on mora government and agency 1...
06/06/2025

Medical References in Sermons 24

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In a sermon on 1 Timothy 1:8 he says It is implied however in our text that the divine law, though good in itself, is liable to abuse by bei...

Brooks on an uncommon occurrence in 1764

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It has featured in this blog previously but in Thomas Brooks history of the church he concludes Chapter 5 (pp 65, 66) We must not however su...
02/06/2025

Hymns for the sacraments

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Mr Pickles points out, interestingly, that whereas Beddome's hymn book contains 38 hymns on baptism, there are only four on the Lord...

Church Book Entry February 15 1778

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Mr Beddome took Occasion last Sabbath to speak of the wretched and shameful Profanation of the Sabbath by the Children in the Village of Bou...
04/04/2025

May be like this (AI)

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There is no portrait of Benjamin Beddome but may be he looked something like this, courtesy of chatgpt.
17/03/2025

Did we mention ... ?

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Sometimes it is hard to remember what is on this blog. We have certainly briefly mentioned that Beddome's father, John Beddome, was prob...
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