LYRICS
| Meter: | 7 7 7 7
| | Writer(s): | William Cowper
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| | Dates: |
| | Bible Refs: | Heb 12:8
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MUSIC
 Songs of Fellowship 1
| 519
| F
| Living Praise
| 212
| G
| Hymns of Faith
| 476
| G
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 527
| G
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 616
| G
| Methodist Hymn Book - Additional Tunes
| 19
| G
| Believers Hymn Book
| 446
| G
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| 1. ’Tis my happiness below
Not to live without the cross;
But the Savior’s pow’r to know,
Sanctifying every loss:
2. Trials must and will befall;
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all,
This is happiness to me.
3. God, in Israel, sows the seeds
Of affliction, pain, and toil;
These spring up, and choke the weeds
Which would else o’erspread the soil:
4. Trials make the promise sweet,
Trials give hew life to prayer;
Trials bring me to his feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there.
5. Did I meet no trials here,
No chastisement by the way;
Might I not, with reason, fear
I should prove a cast–away:
6. Bastards may escape the rod,
Sunk in earthly, vain delight;
But the true–born child of GOD,
Must not, would not, if he might.
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