Sunday’s Hymn: Thy Mercy, My God

We sang this hymn this morning in church. The words were written by John Stocker and appeared in The Gospel Magazine in 1776 and then were later published by Daniel Sedgwick, a great British collector of hymns and a bookseller in the mid-nineteenth century. Sandra McCracken tells the story of how she discovered these old lyrics and wrote new music for them here.

Without Thy sweet mercy I could not live here;
Sin would reduce me to utter despair . . .

Dissolved by Thy goodness, I fall to the ground,
And weep to the praise of the mercy IÂ’’ve found.

One thought on “Sunday’s Hymn: Thy Mercy, My God

  1. I can’t remember whether I first heard this – either when our music pastor introduced it or when a young man we knew included it on a CD he made for fundraising purposes to go into a ministry. But either way, it spoke to me right from the beginning. I was glad to read of the story behind the new tune.

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