Blest are the saints, O Lord
Blest are the saints, O Lord. Augustus Montague Toplady* (1740-1778).
This is one of several versions of Toplady’s ‘Blest is the man, O Lord’*, rewritten to avoid the non-inclusive language of the first line. This is the beginning of the four-verse text in HP. In RS the hymn, also in four verses, begins ‘How blest are they, O Lord’. The perceived need to rewrite verse 1 line 1 is an indication of the continuing value of this...
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