Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Thou hidden love of God whose hight
Topic: The New Life/Temptations and Conflicts
Writer: C Wesley
Composer:
Meter: LM six lines
Tune:
Hymn Number: 859
Page Number: 506, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThou hidden love of God, whose hight,
Whose depth, unfathomed, no man knows,
I see from far thy beauteous light:
Inly I sigh for thy repose;
My heart is pained; nor can it be
At rest till it find rest in thee.
Thy secret voice invites me still
The sweetness of thy yoke to prove;
And fain I would; but though my will
Seems fixed, yet wide my passions rove;
Yet hind'rances strew all the way;
I am at thee, yet from thee stray.
'T is mercy all, that thou hast brought
My mind to seek her peace in thee;
Yet, while I seek, but find thee not,
No peace my wandering soul shall see,
O, when shall all my wanderings end,
And all my steps to thee-ward tend?
Is there a thing beneath the sun
That strives with thee my heart to share?
Ah, tear it thence, and reign alone,
The Lord of every motion there;
Then shall my heart from earth be free,
When it hath found repose in thee.