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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: How free and boundless is the grace (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1843

Compiler: A Campbell/ W Scott/ B W Stone/ J T Johnson

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: How free and boundless is the grace

Topic: Recruiting Songs

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune: Cambridge

Hymn Number: Song 65 (part I)

Page Number: 141 (part I), click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

HOW free and boundless is the grace

Of our redeeming God!

Extending to the Greek and Jew,

And men of ev'ry blood.



The mightiest king, the meanest slave,

May his rich mercy taste;

He bids the beggar and the prince

Come to the gospel feast.



None are excluded thence, but those

Who do themselves exclude;

Welcome the learned and polite,

The ignorant and rude.



Come, then, you men of ev'ry name,

Of ev'ry tribe and tongue;

What you are willing to receive

May unto you belong.