Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Infinite inexhausted love
Topic: Love and Union
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 161
Page Number: 182, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsInfinite, inexhausted love!
Jesu and love are one;
If still to me thy bowels move,
They are restrain'd to none.
What shall I do, my God, to love?
My loving God to praise?
The length, and breadth, and height to prove,
And depth of sov'reign grace?
Thy sov'reign grace to all extends,
Immense and unconfin'd'
From age to age, it never ends,
It reaches all mankind.
Throughout the world, its breadth is known,
Wide as infinity;
So wide, it never pass'd by one,
Or, it had pass'd by me.
My trespass was grown up to heav'n;
But far above the skies,
In Christ abundantly forgiv'n,
I see thy mercies rise.
The depth of all-redeeming love,
What angel tongue can tell?
O may I to the utmost prove,
The gift unspeakable.
Come quickly, gracious Lord, and take
Possession of thine own;
My longing heart, vouchsafe to make
Thine everlasting throne.
Assert thy claim, maintain thy right,
Come quickly from above,
And sink me to perfection's height,
The depth of humble love.