Could we with ink the ocean fill
Could we with ink the ocean fill. Author unknown.
According to Steve Perisho this hymn dates from August 1746 (at the very latest: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021278463&seq=461). It was printed in The Lord’s Songs: a Collection of Composures in Metre, such as have been most used in the late glorious revivals; Dr Watts’s Psalms and Hymns excepted (Salem, Massachusetts: Joshua Cushing, 1805), compiled and edited by Joshua Spalding* AM, ‘Minister at the Branch Church at Salem’, with the title ‘The Love of God to Man’.
The Collection is available at https://archive.org/stream/lordssongscolle00spal#page/n5/mode/2up
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