Happy the man that finds the grace

Happy the man that finds the grace. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns for those that seek, and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ (1747) in nine stanzas of 4 lines. It was entitled ‘Prov. iii. 13, &c.’, followed by instructions for the tune, ‘To-------- Sinners, obey the Gospel-Word.’ (‘Sinners, obey the gospel word’* is the first line of one of Charles Wesley’s earlier hymns, from Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749). The text in 1747 was as follows: Happy the Man, who finds the Grace,The Blessing of God’s Chosen Race,The Wisdom coming from Above,The Faith that sweetly works by Love.  Happy beyond Description He, Who knows, The Saviour died for me, The...