Here Is Love Vast As the Ocean

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Here is love, vast as the ocean

Author: William Rees; Translator: William Edwards
Tune: DIM OND JESU (Lowry)
Published in 15 hymnals

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1. Here is love, vast as the ocean,
Loving-kindness as the flood;
When the Prince of Life, my ransom,
Shed for me his precious blood.
Who his love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing his praise?
He shall never be forgotten,
Through Heav’n’s everlasting days

2. On the mount of crucifixion,
Fountains opened deep and wide,
Through the flood-gates of God’s mercy,
Flowed the vast and gracious tide;
Grace and love, like mighty rivers
Poured incessant from above,
And God’s peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love.

3. Let me all your love accepting,
Love you, ever all my days;
Let me seek your kingdom only
And my life be to your praise;
You alone will be my glory,
Nothing in the world I see;
You have cleansed and sanctified me,
You have loved and set me free.

4. In your truth you will direct me
By your Spirit, thru' your Word;
And your grace my need is meeting,
As I trust in you, my Lord.
All your fulness you are pouring
From your endless wells above,
Without measure, full and boundless
As I yield myself in love.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #325

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Author: William Rees

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Translator: William Edwards

Born: March 16, 1848, Llanafon, in a small white-washed farmhouse on the borders of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, Wales. Died: February 28, 1929, Cardiff, Wales. Buried: Cardiff, Wales. From Pontypool Baptist College, Edwards went to Regent’s Park, graduated from London University, was a tutor at Haverfordwest Baptist College (1872-80), then returned to Pontypool as principal and tutor in New Testament Greek. In 1882, he was one of the chief promoters of University College, Cardiff (of whose council he was a member the rest of his life). He was one of the most active supporters of the move of his own college from Pontypool to Cardiff in 1883. Edwards published many small books, and his translation of the New Testament from Gr… Go to person page >

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Related Texts

Heavenly Hosts in Ceaseless Worship

First Line:	Here is love, vast as the ocean
Title:	Here Is Love Vast As the Ocean
Welsh Title:	Dyma gariad fel y moroedd
Author:	William Rees
Translator:	William Edwards
Meter:	8.7.8.7 D
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain