Blest Are the Pure, Whose Hearts Are Clean

Blest are the pure, whose hearts are clean,
Who never tread the ways of sin;
With endless pleasures they shall see
A God of spotless purity.

Blest are the men of peaceful life,
Who quench the coals of growing strife,
They shall be called the heirs of bliss,
The sons of God, the God of peace.

Author: Isaac Watts

Year: 1719

This is a metrical paraphrase of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12) from Watts' Psalms of David Imitated (1719), where it appears as part of his version of Psalm 19 or as a supplementary hymn on the Sermon on the Mount. The style, language, and structure are characteristic of Watts; no other major hymn-writer is known to have produced this text.