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Text: | What shall I do my God to love |
Author: | Charles Wesley, 1707-88 |
Tune: | WILTSHIRE |
Composer: | George Thomas Smart, 1776-1867 |
1 What shall I do my God to love,
my loving God to praise?
the length, and breadth, and height to prove,
and depth of sovereign grace?
2 Your sovereign grace to all extends,
immense and unconfined;
from age to age it never ends,
to reach all humankind.
3 Throughout the world its breadth is known,
wide as infinity;
so wide it never passed by one,
or it had passed by me.
4 My trespass was grown up to heav'n;
but far above the skies,
in Christ abundantly forgiv'n,
I see your mercies rise.
5 The depth of all-redeeming love,
what angel tongue can tell?
O may I to the utmost prove
the gift unspeakable.
6 Come quickly, gracious Lord, and take
possession of your own;
my longing heart be pleased to make
your everlasting throne.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | What shall I do my God to love |
Author: | Charles Wesley, 1707-88 (alt.) |
Meter: | 86.86 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Forgiveness; Grace; Holiness(5 more...) |
Notes: | May be sung to GERONTIUS 141 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WILTSHIRE |
Composer: | George Thomas Smart, 1776-1867 |
Meter: | 86.86 |
Key: | A Major |
Notes: | A higher setting may be found at 112 |