When I came to SI a few months ago, I was already singing this hymn most days, the words coming back to me from when I learned it years ago. It's by a Wesley (not sure which) and naturally uses KJV language.
Isaiah 63:15b [b]where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?[/b]
I wanted to share it will you all, as I'm [i]feeling[/i] much more as if I've been plucked from hell, than ever - although I'm still singing it (to a tune called 'Jerusalem' by S Grosvenor).
[i]Common Metre[/i]
INFINITE, unexhausted Love! Jesus and love are one! If still to me thy bowels move, They are restrained to none.
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?
Thy sovereign grace to all extends, Immense and unconfined; From age to age it never ends; It reaches all mankind.
Throughout the world its breadth is known, [b]Wide as infinity; So wide, it never passed by one, Or it had passed by me.
My trespass was grown up to heaven; But far above the skies, In Christ abundantly forgiven, I see thy mercies rise.
The depth of all-redeeming love What angel-tongue can tell? O may I to the utmost prove The gift unspeakable!
[u]Deeper than hell, it plucked me thence[/u]; (AMEN! and amen!) Deeper than inbred sin[/b], Jesus's love my heart shall cleanse When Jesus enters in.
Come quickly, gracious Lord, and take Possession of thine own; My longing heart vouchsafe to make Thine everlasting throne!
Assert thy claim, maintain thy right, Come quickly from above; And sink me to perfection's height, The depth of humble love.
Beatitudo [url=http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/l/mlmlwcru.htm]http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/l/mlmlwcru.htm[/url]
St Agnes [url=http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/f/o4afaith.htm]http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/f/o4afaith.htm[/url]
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