Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Thy mercy my God is the theme of my song
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 11s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 318
Page Number: 296, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThy mercy, my God, is the theme of
my song,
the joy of my heart; and the boast of
my tongue;
thy free grace alone, from the first to
the last,
hath won my affections, and bound my
soul fast.
Without thy sweet mercy I could not
Live here.
Sin soon would reduce me to utter des-
pair;
but through thy free goodness, my spi-
rits revive,
and he that first made me, still keeps
me alive,
thy mercy is more than a match for my
heart,
which wonders to feel its own hardness
depart;
dissolved by thy goodness, I fall to the
ground,
and weep to the praise of the mercy I
found.
The door of thy mercy stands open all
Day
To the poor and the needy, who knock
by the way;
no sinner shall ever be empty sent back,
who comes kneeling for mercy - he
never shall lack.
Thy mercy in Jesus exempts me from
hell;
its glories I'll sing, and its wonders I'll
tell;
'Twas Jesus, my friend, when he hung
on the tree,
who opened the channel of mercy for me.
Great father of mercies, thy goodness
I own,
And the covenant love of thy crucified
son;
All praise to the Spirit, whose whisper
divine,
seals mercy and pardon and righteous-
ness mine.