| 1 | Since all the varying scenes of time
God’s watchful eye surveys,
O Who so wise to choose our lot,
Or to appoint our ways! |
| 2 | Good when He gives– supremely good–
Nor less when He denies:
E’en crosses, from His sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise. |
| 3 | Why should we doubt a Father’s love,
So constant and so kind?
To his unerring, gracious will
Be every wish resigned. |
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The texts from any two of the above sources (assuming two or more exist) can be selected to appear below side by side by selecting the source name from the drop-down lists:
| 1 | Since all the downward tracks of time
God’s watchful eye surveys,
O Who so wise to choose our lot
And regulate our ways? |
| 2 | Good, when He gives, supremely good!
Nor less when He denies:
Even crosses from His sovereign hand
Are blessings in disguise. |
| 3 | Why should we doubt His equal love,
Immeasurably kind?
To His unerring, gracious will
Be every wish resigned. Amen. |
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| Book | Reference | Bible Text |
| Job | 2:10 | But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. |
| Psalm | 42:5 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. |
| Psalm | 43:5 | Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. |
| Psalm | 56:3 | What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. |
| Psalm | 75:7 | But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. |
| Proverbs | 3:5,6 | 5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. |
| Proverbs | 3:12 | For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. |
| Ecclesiastes | 7:14 | In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. |
| Romans | 8:28-30 | 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. |
| Romans | 11:33-36 | 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? 35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen. |
| 1 Corinthians | 13:12 | For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. |
| 2 Corinthians | 4:17 | For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; |
| Hebrews | 12:5 | And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: |
| Revelation | 21:27 | And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. |
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