Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: Miscellaneous Hymns for Sundry Occasions First Line: Blessed be God for all Lyrics: 1 Blessed be God for all,
For all things here below;
For pain, and ease, and joy, and thrall,
To my advantage grow.
2 Blessed be God, for shame,
For slander, and disgrace;
Welcome reproach for Jesus' name,
Like flint, Lord set my face.
3 Blessed be God, for loss,
For loss of earthly things;
For ev'ry scourge and ev'ry cross,
Me nearer Jesus brings.
4 Blessed be God, for want:
For raiment, health and food;
I live by faith; I scorn to faint;
For all things work for good.
5 Blessed be God, for pain,
Which tears my flesh like thorns;
It crucifies my carnal man,
To God, my soul returns.
6 Blessed be God, for doubts,
Which he hath overcome;
My soul in full assurance shouts,
Of being soon at home.
7 Blessed be God, for fears,
Of sin, and death, and hell;
When Christ, who is my life, appears,
In glory I shall dwell.
8 Blessed be God, for friends,
Blessed be God, for foes,
Blessed be God, whose gracious ends
No finite creature knows.
9 Blessed be God, for life,
Blessed be God, for death,
Blessed be God, for joy, or grief,
I welcome all thro' faith. Text Sources: Winchester's Coll.
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