Text: | There’s a wideness in God’s mercy |
Author: | Frederick William Faber, 1814-63 |
Tune: | CROSS OF JESUS |
Composer: | John Stainer, 1840-1901 |
1 There's a wideness in God's mercy
like the wideness of the sea,
and forgiveness in his justice
sealed for us on Calvary.
2 There is plentiful redemption
in the blood that has been shed;
there is joy for all the members
in the sorrows of the Head.
3 For the love of God is broader
than the measures of our mind;
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.
4 But we make his love too narrow
by false limits of our own,
and we magnify his strictness
with a zeal he would not own.
5 If our love were but more simple
we should take him at his word;
and our lives would be illumined
by the goodness of our Lord.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | There’s a wideness in God’s mercy |
Author: | Frederick William Faber, 1814-63 (alt.) |
Meter: | 87.87 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | God's Love to Us; Mercy of God; People of God(5 more...) |
Notes: | May be sung to OMNI DIE 101 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CROSS OF JESUS |
Composer: | John Stainer, 1840-1901 |
Meter: | 87.87 |
Key: | F Major |