I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Psalm 34:1
Words: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, second edition, 1709, Book 3, number 38. A Song of Praise to the Blessed Trinity.
Music: Embry (Layton) John T. Layton, Sr., in The African Methodist Episcopal Hymn and Tune Book (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: African Methodist Episcopal Book Concern, 1898), number 699 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Layton (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels, better than the one on his Findagrave page),
I give immortal praise
To God the Father’s love,
For all my comforts here,
And better hopes above:
He sent His own eternal Son,
To die for sins that man had done.
To God the Son belongs
Immortal glory too,
Who bought us with His blood
From everlasting woe:
And now He lives, and now He reigns,
And sees the fruit of all His pains.
To God the Spirit’s name
Immortal worship give,
Whose new-creating pow’r
Makes the dead sinner live;
His work completes the great design,
And fills the soul with joy divine.
Almighty God! to Thee
Be endless honors done,
The undivided Three,
And the mysterious One:
Where reason fails, with all her pow’rs,
There faith prevails, and love adores.