Stupendous height of heavenly love

Verse 1
Stupendous height of heavenly love,
Of pitying tenderness Divine!
It brought the Saviour from above,
It caus’d the Springing Day to shine,
The Sun of righteousness t’ appear,
And gild our gloomy hemisphere.

Verse 2
God did in Christ himself reveal,
To chase our darkness by his light,
Our sin and ignorance dispel,
Direct our wandring feet aright,
And bring our souls with pardon blest
To realms of everlasting rest.

Verse 3
Come then, O Lord, the light impart,
The faith that bids our terrors cease,
Into thy love direct my heart,
Into thy way of perfect peace,
And chear my soul of death afraid,
And guide me thro’ the dreadful shade.

Verse 4
Answer thy mercy’s whole design,
My God incarnated for me,
My spirit make thy radiant shrine,
My Light and full Salvation be,
And thro’ the dreary vale unknown
Conduct me to thy dazling throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us.'—[Luke 1,] v. 78.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 114.
Publishing: Public Domain