Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love

Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, 1762), as three separate hymns, each of one 8-line stanza and each based on Exodus 34: 6b (‘The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,’): Gracious, long-suffering, xxxiv. 6. Thy causeless unexhausted love,  Unmerited and free,Delights our evil to remove.  And help our misery;Thou waitest to be gracious still,  Thou dost with sinners bear,That sav’d, we may thy goodness feel,   And all thy grace declare. Abundant in goodness, - xxxiv. 6. Thy goodness and thy truth to me,  To every soul abound,A vast...

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