2176. Happy Are They, They That Love God

1. Happy are they, they that love God,
Whose hearts have Christ confessed,
Who by His cross have found their life,
And ’neath His yoke their rest.

2. Glad is the praise, sweet are the songs,
When they together sing;
And strong the prayers that bow the ear
Of Heaven’s eternal King.

3. Christ to their homes giveth His peace,
And makes their loves His own;
But ah, what tares the evil one
Hath in his garden sown.

4. Sad were our lot, evil this earth,
Did not its sorrows prove
The path whereby the sheep may find
The fold of Jesu’s love.

5. Then shall they know, they that love Him,
How all their pain is good;
And death itself cannot unbind
Their happy brotherhood.

Text Information
First Line: Happy are they, they that love God
Title: Happy Are They, They That Love God
Latin Title: O quam juvat fratres, Deus
Author: Charles Coffin (1736)
Translator (from Latin): Robert S. Bridges
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Paris Breviary, 1736; Translation in Yattendon Hymnal
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: BINCHESTER
Composer: William Croft (1707)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 32175 43223 55452
Key: G Major
Source: Playford's Divine Companion, second edition, 1707, page 67
Copyright: Public Domain



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