Anne Steele wrote this hymn, originally of six stanzas,  which was published in her Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional in 1760 under the title “God My Creator and Benefactor”

Anne steele was born in 1716 or 1717 in the little village of Brou, Hampshire, near Southampton , England. She was the elder daughter of a timber merchant who was also an unsalaried Baptist minister.  Because of an accident in childhood, she was an invalid all her days, and suffered extreme sorrow when her fiancé was drowned on the eve of her wedding. She was devoutly consecrated to God, however. She manifested her poetic talent at an early age but did not publish until prevailed upon in 1760, when two volumes of poetry appeared. In all, she wrote 144 hymns, 34 psalms, and 30 short poems, using the pen name Theodosia. She died at Broughton on November 11, 1778.

The tune EL KADER WAS WITH THIS TEXT IN THE 1869 SDA hymnal Hymns and Tunes, and in subsequent SDA hymnals. But it has not been found in any of the standard current hymnals of other churches.