There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

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There's a wideness in God's mercy

Author: Frederick William Faber (1862)
Tune: WELLESLEY (Tourjee)
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1 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
like the wideness of the sea.
There’s a kindness in God’s justice,
which is more than liberty.

2 There is welcome for the sinner,
and more graces for the good.
There is mercy with the Savior,
there is healing in his blood.

3 But we make God’s love too narrow
by false limits of our own,
and we magnify its strictness
with a zeal God will not own.

4 For the love of God is broader
than the measures of the mind,
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.

5 If our love were but more simple,
we should rest upon God’s word,
and our lives would be illumined
by the presence of our Lord.

Source: Voices Together #156

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Author: Frederick William Faber

Raised in the Church of England, Frederick W. Faber (b. Calverly, Yorkshire, England, 1814; d. Kensington, London, England, 1863) came from a Huguenot and strict Calvinistic family background. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and ordained in the Church of England in 1839. Influenced by the teaching of John Henry Newman, Faber followed Newman into the Roman Catholic Church in 1845 and served under Newman's supervision in the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. Because he believed that Roman Catholics should sing hymns like those written by John Newton, Charles Wesley, and William Cowpe, Faber wrote 150 hymns himself. One of his best known, "Faith of Our Fathers," originally had these words in its third stanza: "Faith of Our Fathers! Mary'… Go to person page >

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First Line:	There's a wideness in God's mercy
Title:	There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
Author:	Frederick William Faber (1862)
Meter:	8.7.8.7
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Year A, Christmas season, Christmas Day
This is recommended for Year A, Christmas season, Christmas Day by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year A, Christmas Season, Second Sunday after Christmas Day
This is recommended for Year A, Christmas Season, Second Sunday after Christmas Day by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435.
Year A, Christmas Season, Second Sunday after Christmas Day
Year A, Epiphany Season, Seventh Sunday
Related to Psalm 103 and Matthew 5 (NPM)
Year A, Lent, Ash Wednesday
This is recommended for Year A, Lent, Ash Wednesday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year A, Lent, Third Sunday
Related to Romans 5 and John 4 (NPM)
Year A, Holy Week season, Monday of Holy Week
This is recommended for Year A, Holy Week season, Monday of Holy Week by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435.
Year A, Easter season, Fourth Sunday
This is recommended for Year A, Easter season, Fourth Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 7 (12)
This is recommended for Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 7 (12) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 15 (20)
This is recommended for Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 15 (20) by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 19 (24)
This is recommended for Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 19 (24) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 20 (25)
This is recommended for Year A, Ordinary Time, Proper 20 (25) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435.
Year B, Christmas season, Christmas Day
This is recommended for Year B, Christmas season, Christmas Day by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year B, Christmas season, Second Sunday after Christmas Day
This is recommended for Year B, Christmas season, Second Sunday after Christmas Day by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435.
Year B, Epiphany season, Eighth Sunday
This is recommended for Year B, Epiphany season, Eighth Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year B, Lent, Ash Wednesday
This is recommended for Year B, Lent, Ash Wednesday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year B, Lent, Fourth Sunday
This is recommended for Year B, Lent, Fourth Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year B, Holy Week season, Monday of Holy Week
This is recommended for Year B, Holy Week season, Monday of Holy Week by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435.
Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 3 (8)
This is recommended for Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 3 (8) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 9 (14)
This is recommended for Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 9 (14) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year B, Ordinary Time, Proper 9 (14)
Year C, Christmas season, Christmas Day
This is recommended for Year C, Christmas season, Christmas Day by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year C, Epiphany season, Second Sunday
This is recommended for Year C, Epiphany season, Second Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year C, Lent, Ash Wednesday
This is recommended for Year C, Lent, Ash Wednesday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435 and Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year C, Lent, Third Sunday
This is recommended for Year C, Lent, Third Sunday by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435.
Year C, Lent, Third Sunday
Year C, Lent, Fourth Sunday
This is recommended for Year C, Lent, Fourth Sunday by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year C, Lent, Fourth Sunday
Year C, Holy Week season, Monday of Holy Week
This is recommended for Year C, Holy Week season, Monday of Holy Week by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Glory to God: the Presbyterian Hymnal #435.
Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 6 (11)
This is recommended for Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 6 (11) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 19 (24)
This is recommended for Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 19 (24) by 3 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.
Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 24 (29)
This is recommended for Year C, Ordinary Time, Proper 24 (29) by 2 hymnal lectionary indexes including Lift Up Your Hearts: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs #689.

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Hymns of Faith, with Music #d86

Latin

Journeysongs (3rd ed.) #712

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Mawl a chân = praise and song : llyfr hymnau a thonau i Gymru ar Wasgar = hymnal for Welsh and English church worship / crynhoad pwyllgor Eglwys Gymraeg, Detroit, Michigan #155

Yiddish

Hymns of Faith, with Music #d86

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WELLESLEY (Tourjee)

[There's a wideness in God's mercy] (Vail)

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