LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Charles (Carolo) Coffin
| | Transl/Adapt: | Robert Seymour Bridges
| | Dates: | 1736
| | Bible Refs: | Pr 16:20
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 532
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 496
| Church Family Worship
| 1988
| 125
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 419
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 649
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 456
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 176
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 261
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 711
| Hymns for Today's Church 2
| 1988
| 473
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 517
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 262
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 419
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 369
| Oxford Hymn Book
| 1925
| 212
| Songs of Praise
| 1925
| 247
| Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition
| 1931
| 509
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 398
| Yattendon Hymnal
| 1900
| 34
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MUSIC
 Baptist Hymn Book
| 496
| G
| Hymns of Faith
| 517
| G
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 419
| G
| Believers Hymn Book
| 163
| G
| Believers Hymn Book
| 216
| G
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| 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.
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