The Love of God

My God, Thy boundless love I praise,

How bright on high its glories blaze,

How sweetly bloom below!

It streams from thy eternal throne;

Through heaven its joys forever run,

And o'er the earth they flow.

It robes in cheerful green the ground,

And pours its flowery beauties round,

Whose sweets perfume the gale;

Its bounties richly spread the plain,

The blushing fruit, the golden grain,

And smile on every vale.

But in Thy gospel see it shine

With grace and glories more divine,

Proclaiming sins forgiven,

There faith, bright cherub, points the way

To realms of everlasting day,

And opens all her heaven.

Then let the love that makes me blest,

With cheerful praise inspire my breast,

And ardent gratitude;

And all my thoughts and passions tend

To thee, my Father and my Friend,

My soul's eternal good.