The Cyber Hymnal ‎#1666

1666. Father, Whose Everlasting Love

1. Father, whose everlasting love
Thy only Son for sinners gave,
Whose grace to all did freely move,
And sent Him down the world to save;

2. Help us Thy mercy to extol,
Immense, unfathomed, unconfined;
To praise the Lamb who died for all,
The general Savior of mankind.

3. Thy undistinguishing regard
Was cast on Adam’s fallen race;
For all Thou hast in Christ prepared
Sufficient, sovereign, saving grace.

4. The world He suffered to redeem;
For all He hath the atonement made;
For those that will not come to Him
The ransom of His life was paid.

5. Why then, Thou universal Love,
Should any of Thy grace despair?
To all, to all, Thy bowels move,
But straitened in our own we are.

6. Arise, O God, maintain Thy cause!
The fullness of the Gentiles call;
Lift up the standard of Thy cross,
And all shall own Thou diedst for all.

Text Information

• First Line: Father, whose everlasting love
• Title: Father, Whose Everlasting Love
• Author: Charles Wesley (1741)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, 1741
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tune: BEETHOVEN, arranger unknown, before 1895

Tune Information

• Name: HAMBURG
• Composer: Lowell Mason (1824)
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 11232 34323 33343
• Key: F Major
• Source: The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music, third edition, 1825
• Copyright: Public Domain