LORD, You Are Good

LORD, You are good: I know it well

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 LORD, You are good: I know it well.
To You alone the praise is due.
If I have stood while others fell,
It is Your grace has born me through.

2 Your presence still my strength supplied,
Your hand did every want relieve.
Your counsel to the end will guide,
Your glory then my soul receive.

3 Whom, LORD, in heaven, but You alone,
Have I whose favor I require?
Throughout the wide world there is none,
That I before You could desire.

4 My trembling flesh, and aching heart,
May often fail to support me;
But You will inward strength impart,
And my eternal portion be.

Source: Psalms of Grace #73a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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