Bless’d be the Lord, forever blessed

Verse 1
Blest be the Lord, forever blest
The God of Israel’s favour’d race,
His name be known, his power confest,
His riches of redeeming grace,
Who left for sinful worms his throne,
And came to bless us in his Son.

Verse 2
God was in Christ on earth reveal’d,
He entred a mean house of clay,
With whom the heaven of heavens is fill’d
He stoop’d to bear our sins away,
Victim Divine, on all bestow’d,
He bought the nations with his blood.

Verse 3
Let all their great Redeemer praise,
Redeem’d from sin, the world, and hell!
The strength of thy victorious grace,
Jesus, throughout our souls we feel,
And wait thine utmost power to save
Our bodies ransom’d from the grave.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people.’—[Luke 1,] v. 68.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 112.
Publishing: Public Domain