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Your mercy, my God, is the theme of my song
- Exodus 15:13
- Numbers 14:19-20
- Psalms 101:1
- Psalms 108:3-4
- Psalms 109:21-22
- Psalms 31:7
- Psalms 34:2-3
- Psalms 59:16
- Psalms 72:12-13
- Psalms 89:1-2
- Joel 2:32
- Mark 15:25-32
- Luke 1:72
- Luke 18:13
- Luke 22:20
- Luke 5:8
- John 6:37
- Acts 10:39-40
- Acts 2:21
- Acts 2:23
- Acts 2:36
- Acts 5:30
- Romans 10:13
- Romans 3:24
- Romans 5:15
- 1 Corinthians 11:25
- 2 Corinthians 1:22
- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
- 2 Corinthians 10:17
- Ephesians 1:13
- Ephesians 2:4
- Ephesians 2:8-9
- Hebrews 13:20-21
- 1 Peter 1:3-4
- 1 Peter 2:10
- 1 Peter 2:24
- 1 Peter 3:18-20
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Your mercy, my God, is the theme of my song,
the joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue;
your free grace alone, from the first to the last,
has won my affections, and bound my soul fast.
2. Your mercy in Jesus has freed me from hell;
its glories I’ll sing and its wonders I’ll tell;
this Jesus my friend, when he hung on the tree,
there opened the channel of mercy for me.
3. Your mercy is more than a match for my heart,
which wonders to feel its own hardness depart;
in awe at your goodness, I fall to the ground,
and weep to the praise of the mercy I found.
4. The door of your mercy stands open to all-
the poor and the needy, whoever shall call;
no sinner who comes seeking mercy today
is ever by Jesus sent empty away.
5. Great Father of mercies, your goodness I own,
and the covenant love of your crucified Son;
all praise to the Spirit, whose whisper divine
seals mercy and pardon and righteousness mine.
‘J.S.’ in Gospel Magazine 1776
The Father - His Love
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Tune
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St Luke 
Metre: - 11 11 11 11
Composer: - Collection of Easy Litanies (1852)
The story behind the hymn
An even greater rarity is this anonymous 18th-c hymn, appearing only in GH among current books. But it has an honoured history in that constituency, featuring in books such as Gadsby’s Selection of Hymns for Public Worship from 1814, and there headed ‘Singing of mercy: Ps 89:1, 101:1’. Its first known printing was in the Gospel Magazine in 1776, the year after Rock of ages had appeared in that journal, and two years before Toplady’s death. It is signed ‘J.S.’; there is no obvious candidate for its authorship. Whoever it was, the writer gladly offers the gospel ‘to all … whoever shall call’ (stz 4). Few hymns celebrate the mercy of God so clearly or insistently, with a closing stz recalling the title given in 2 Corinthians 1:3, ‘the Father of mercies’.
The tune ST LUKE, also ‘anon’ and set to this hymn in GH, is better known than the text but must be distinguished from tunes of the same name by both Clark and Heywood. It emerged much later than the words, in an 1852 Collection of Easy Litanies. See also 353.