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Text:Bless'd Is the Man
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:DISTRESS
Adapter:Gregory D. Wilbur

32a. Bless'd Is the Man

1 Bless'd is the man, forever bless'd,
whose guilt is pardoned by his God;
whose sins with sorrow are confessed
and covered with his Savior's blood.

2 Bless'd is the man to whom the LORD
imputes not his iniquities;
he pleads no merit of reward
and not on works, but grace relies.

3 From guile his heart and lips are free;
his humble joy, his holy fear,
with deep repentance well agree
and join to prove his faith sincere.

4 How glorious is that righteousness
that hides and cancels all his sins,
while bright the evidence of grace
through his whole life appears and shines!

Text Information
First Line: Bless'd is the man, forever bless'd
Title: Bless'd Is the Man
Author: Isaac Watts (1719)
Meter: 8.8.8.8 LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2022
Scripture:
Tune Information
Name: DISTRESS
Adapter: Gregory D. Wilbur
Meter: 8.8.8.8 LM
Key: d minor or modal
Source: The Southern Harmony, 1835, alt.
Copyright: Adapt. © 2009 Gregory D. Wilbur



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