A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #d68
Display Title: Dost thou my profit seek First Line: Dost thou my profit seek Author: Benjamin Beddome Date: 1831
A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #d68
1 Dost thou my profit seek,
And chasten as a friend?
O God, I'll kiss the smarting rod,
There's honey at the end.
2 Dost thou thro' death's dark vale
Conduct to heaven at last?
The future good will make amends
For all the evil past.
3 Lord, I would not repine
At strokes in mercy sent;
If the chastisement comes in love,
My soul shall be content.
Source: A Collection of Evangelical Hymns #CXLVII
First Line: | Dost thou my profit seek |
Title: | Submission Under Affliction |
Author: | Benjamin Beddome (1787) |
Meter: | 6.6.8.6 |
Source: | Appeared posthumously in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton and Briggs,1818); John Rippon, A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, 1787 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
This first published as "Dost thou my profit seek", Hymn 540 (S. M.) in Rippon's Selection, 1787.
It appears in Beddome's Hymns, 1818, in highly altered form, Hymn 223 (77. 77. D.). It is not known whether Rippon reduced Beddome's hymn, or Beddome rewrote it after 1787 (see discussion in John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, 1905, p. 122).