Favour, and grace to Israel shewn
Is from the Lord our God alone,
Whatever hand thy blessing brings,
Or Persia’s, or Britannia’s kings,
The fountain in the streams we see,
And all our good deriv’d from thee.
Favour and grace to Israel shewn
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God.”—[Ezra] ix. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 221.
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