Text: | There's a Wideness in God's Mercy |
Author: | Frederick W. Faber |
Tune: | WELLESLEY |
Composer: | Lizzie S. Tourjee |
1 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
like the wideness of the sea.
There’s a kindness in God’s justice,
which is more than liberty.
2 There is welcome for the sinner,
and more graces for the good.
There is mercy with the Savior,
there is healing in his blood.
3 But we make God’s love too narrow
by false limits of our own,
and we magnify its strictness
with a zeal God will not own.
4 For the love of God is broader
than the measures of the mind,
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.
5 If our love were but more simple,
we should rest upon God’s word,
and our lives would be illumined
by the presence of our Lord.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | There's a wideness in God's mercy |
Title: | There's a Wideness in God's Mercy |
Author: | Frederick W. Faber |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7 |
Publication Date: | 2020 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Forgiveness: From God; God: Love of; Grace(1 more...) |
Source: | Hymns, 1861 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WELLESLEY |
Composer: | Lizzie S. Tourjee |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7 |
Key: | C Major |
Source: | Hymnal of the Methodist Church with Tunes, 1878 |
Notes: | Chord symbols represent a simplified harmony. |