Bible Songs — Scriptures, Law, Sabbath

Blessed are They that Do

Hear the words our Saviour hath spoken,

No. 1303
Tune BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO.
Words P. P. B.
Music P. P. Bliss.
Key A major
Singing key G major
Time 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

Hear the words our Saviour hath spoken,Words of life, unfailing and true;Careless one, prayerless one, hear and remember,Jesus says, "Blessed are they that do."

Chorus.

Blessed are they that do his commandments,Blessed are they, blessed are they;Blessed are they that do his commandments,Blessed, blessed, blessed are they.

All in vain we hear his commandments,All in vain his promises, too;Hearing them, fearing them, never can save us,Blessed, O blessed are they that do.

They with joy may enter the city,Free from sin, from sorrow and strife,Sanctified, glorified, now and forever,They may have right to the tree of life.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1303» (large, left), title «BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in one line, «"For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."—Rom. 2 : 13.»; «P. P. B.» at the left (words) and «P. P. BLISS.» at the right (music, capitals and small capitals); no meter, no reference line and no running head. The three stanzas are interlinear, three lines between the staves of systems 1–3, numbered «1.»–«3.» in system 1; each stanza has its own last verse line (system 3, to the heavy bar line). «CHORUS.» is printed over the treble after the heavy bar line of system 3; its words stand once, beginning on the second lyric line of system 3 after «do.» and continuing on the one lyric line of systems 4 and 5. The chorus is given here once, after stanza 1, as printed. Syllable hyphens are joined («Sav-iour», «spok-en», «un-fail-ing», «Care-less», «prayer-less», «re-mem-ber», «Je-sus», «Bless-ed», «com-mand-ments», «prom-is-es», «Hear-ing», «fear-ing», «nev-er», «en-ter», «cit-y», «sor-row», «Sanc-ti-fied», «glo-ri-fied», «for-ev-er»). The print sets a thin space before «;» («true ;», «too ;», «they ;»); it is closed up here. Quotation marks in stanza 1 as printed (curly in the print, straight here). Under the music: «By permission The John Church Co.» (centred) and the page number «514». Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («Saviour»).