What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me (Mason)

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1 What shall I render to my God
For all His gifts to me?
Sing, heav'n and earth, rejoice, and praise
His glorious majesty.

2 O let me praise Thee while I live,
And praise Thee when I die,
And praise Thee when I rise again,
And to eternity.

3 Mysterious depths of endless love
Our admiration raise;
My God, Thy Name exalted is
Above our highest praise.

Amen.


Source: The Hymnal and Order of Service #334

Author: John Mason

Mason, John. The known facts of his life are scanty. He was the son of a Dissenting Minister, and the grandfather of John Mason, the author of A Treatise on Self-Knowledge. He was educated at Strixton School, Northants, and Clare Hall, Cambridge. After taking his M.A., he became Curate of Isham; and in 1668, Vicar of Stantonbury, Bucks. A little more than five years afterwards he was appointed Rector of Water-Stratford. Here he composed the volume containing The Songs of Praise, his paraphrase of The Song of Solomon, and the Poem on Dives and Lazarus, with which Shepherd's Penitential Cries was afterwards bound up. This volume passed through twenty editions. Besides the Songs of Praise, it contains six Penitential Cries by Mason, and it i… Go to person page >

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First Line: What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me (Mason)
Author: John Mason
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me? J. Mason. [Praise to the Father.] From his Songs of Praise, 1683.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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