Thou Hidden Love of God (St Catherine) HD

Thou Hidden Love of God (St Catherine) Text by: Gerhardt Tersteegen 1729 Translated by: John Wesley 1738 Tune: Saint Catherine by Henri F Hemy 1864 Source: Episcopal 1940 Hymnal #464 Here is my complete recording of the Episcopal 1940 Hymnbook: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZAT1pP5dJrWsu25T4gVyIAC8nOI-lP8 1 Thou hidden Love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no one knows, I see from far Thy beauteous light, And inly sigh for Thy repose; My heart is pained, nor can it be At rest, till it finds rest in Thee. 2 Thy secret voice invites me still The sweetness of Thy yoke to prove; And fain I would; but though my will Seems fixed, yet wide my passions rove; Yet hindrances strew all the way; I aim at Thee, yet from Thee stray. 3 ’Tis mercy all that Thou has brought My mind to seek its peace in Thee; Yet while I seek, but find Thee not, No peace my wandering soul shall see. O when shall all my wanderings end, And all my steps to Theeward tend? 4 Is there a thing beneath the sun That strives with Thee my heart to share? Ah, tear it thence and reign alone, The Lord of every motion there; Then shall my heart from earth be free, When it hath found repose in Thee. 5 O hide this self from me, that I No more, but Christ in me, may live! My vile affections crucify, Nor let one darling lust survive In all things nothing may I see, Nothing desire or seek, but Thee! 6 O Love, Thy sovereign aid impart To save me from low thoughted care; Chase this self will from all my heart, From all its hidden mazes there; Make me Thy duteous child that I Ceaseless may Abba, Father cry. 7 Ah no! ne’er will I backward turn: Thine wholly, Thine alone I am! Thrice happy he who views with scorn Earth’s toys, for Thee his constant flame; O help that I may never move From the blest footsteps of Thy love! 8 Each moment draw from earth away My heart that lowly waits Thy call; Speak to my inmost soul and say, I am thy love, thy God, thy all! To feel Thy power, to hear Thy voice, To taste Thy love, be all my choice.