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Now in a song of grateful praise is a hymn attributed to Samuel Medley . John Julian, in his Dictionary of Hymnology (p722, 2nd edition, 1907), states that it was published in the June 1776 issue of The Gospel Magazine , but it is not found there. It was included as Hymn CXXXIII in the 29th edition of George Whitefield 's A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship , London: 1785, as Hymn 374 in John Dobell's A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns , Morristown: 1810, and as Hymn 301 in A Select Collection of Hymns, to be universally sung in all the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapels , London: 1815.
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As given in George Whitefield's A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship , 29th ed., London: 1785
English text
1 NOW in a Song of grateful Praise
To my dear Lord my Voice I'll raise,
With all his Saints I'll join to tell,
My Jesus has done all Things well.
2 All Worlds his glorious Power confess,
His Wisdom all his Works express:
But O his Love! what Tongue can tell!
My Jesus has done all Things well.
3 How sov'reign, wonderful and free,
Has been his Love to sinful Me!
This pluck'd me from the Jaw of Hell,
My Jesus has done all Things well.
4 I spurn'd his Grace, I broke his Laws;
And yet he undertook my Cause,
To save me, tho' I did rebell;
My Jesus has done all Things well.
5 And since my Soul has known his Love,
What Mercies has he made me prove;
Mercies which do all Praise excell;
My Jesus has done all Things well.
6 Whene'er my Saviour and my God,
Has on me laid his gentle Rod;
I know in all that has befell,
My Jesus has done all Things well.
7 Tho' many a fiery flaming Dart
The Tempter levels at my Heart;
With this I all his Rage repell,
My Jesus has done all Things well.
8 Sometimes my Lord his Face does hide
To make me pray, or kill my Pride;
Yet then it on my Mind does dwell,
My Jesus has done all Things well.
9 Soon shall I pass the vail of Death,
And in his Arms shall lose my Breath;
Yet then my happy Soul shall tell,
My Jesus has done all Things well.
10 And when to that bright World I rise,
And join the Anthems in the Skies;
Above the rest this Note shall swell,
My Jesus has done all Things well!
As given in James Peck's Peck's Miscellaneous Collection of Sacred Music , vol. 3, London: (1810)
English text
1 Now in a song of grateful praise
To my dear Lord my voice I'll raise:
With all his saints I'll join to tell,
My Jesus hath done all things well.
2 How sov'reign, and how great his love;
What mercies hath he made me prove!
Mercies which do all praise excel;
My Jesus hath done all things well.
3 When call'd to pass the vale of death,
If in his arms I lose my breath,
O then my happy soul will tell,
My Jesus hath done all things well.
4 So when to yon bright world I rise,
And join the anthems in the skies,
Above the rest this note shall swell:
My Jesus hath done all things well.
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