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Play “There's a Wideness in God's Mercy”
Free same-meter accompaniment for There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (Frederick William Faber): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) in four-part harmony, 3 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
Sung here to BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1There's a wideness in God's mercy,
- Like the wideness of the sea;
- There's a kindness in His justice,
- Which is more than liberty.
- 2If our faith were but more simple,
- We should take Him at His word;
- And our lives would be all sunshine,
- In the sweetness of our Lord.
- 3For the love of God is broader
- Than the measure of man's mind;
- And the heart of the Eternal
- Is most wonderfully kind.
About this music
BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the There's a Wideness in God's Mercy page.
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