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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