39. Hymn: There's A Wideness In God's Mercy

There's A Wideness In God's Mercy

Author: F. W. Faber

Tune: ST. HELENA, by Calvin Hampton

(Vocal)

1. There's a wideness in God's mercy, 

    Like the wideness of the sea, 

    There's a kindness in His 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. There is no place where earth's sorrows 

    Are more felt than up in heaven. 

    There is no place where earth's failings 

    Have such kindly judgment given.

4. There is plentiful redemption 

    In the Blood that has been shed; 

    There is joy for all the members 

    In the sorrows of the Head.

5. But we make His love too narrow 

    By false limits of our own; 

    And we magnify His strictness 

    With a zeal He will not own.

6. For the love of God is broader 

    Than the measures of man's mind; 

    And the heart of the Eternal; 

    Is most wonderfully kind.  

7. If our love were but more simple, 

    We should take Him at His word, 

    And our lives be all sunshine 

    In the sweetness of our Lord.