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Hymn: My God thy boundless love I praise (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: My God thy boundless love I praise

Topic: God/His Being and Perfections

Writer: H Moore

Composer:

Meter: CPM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 42

Page Number: 027, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

My God! Thy boundless love I praise;

How bright on high its glories blaze!

How sweetly bloom below!

It streams from thine eternal throne;

Through heaven its joys forever run,

And o'er the earth they flow.



'T is love that paints the purple morn,

And bids the clouds, in air upborne, 

Their genial drops distill;

In every vernal beam it glows,

And breathes in every gale that blows,

And glides in every rill.



But in thy word I see it shine

With grace and glories more divine,

Proclaiming sins forgiven;

There, Faith, bright cherub, points the way

To realms of everlasting day,

And opens all her heaven.



Then let the love, that makes me blest,

With cheerful praise inspire my breast,

And ardent gratitude;

And all my thoughts and passions tend

To Thee, my Father, and my Friend,

My soul's eternal good.