There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

• 07 February 2026
• 1_ folder- main 4,
• 2_ copyright- public domain_ text,
• 2_ copyright- public domain_ tune,
• 2_ instrumentation- four-part choir,
• 2_ language- english,
• 2_ key- a major or f sharp minor,
• 3_ text title- there_s a wideness in god_s mercy,
• 3_ tune name- wellesley,
• 4_ poetic meter- 8-7-8-7 trochaic

Hymn Information

Folder: Main IV, no. 2
Tune used, name: 'Wellesley'
Composer: Tourjée, Lizzie Shove (1858–1913); composed circa 1877
Lyricist: Faber, Frederick William (1814–1863); written in 1854
Source used for representative text: from hymnary.org, Voices Together #156

Resources and Audios

Sheet music, project file and MIDI:

• Sheet music, PDF
• Sheet music, MuseScore
• SynthV Studio project file, zipped
• MIDI note data

Audio files (separate parts for Lead, Accompaniment I, Accompaniment II and Bass):

Audio file (all parts combined):

Representative Text

1
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
like the wideness of the sea.
There’s a kindness in God’s justice,
which is more than liberty.

2
There is welcome for the sinner,
and more graces for the good.
There is mercy with the Savior,
there is healing in his blood.

3
But we make God’s love too narrow
by false limits of our own,
and we magnify its strictness
with a zeal God will not own.

4
For the love of God is broader
than the measures of the mind,
and the heart of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.

5
If our love were but more simple,
we should rest upon God’s word,
and our lives would be illumined
by the presence of our Lord.

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