Petitionary Hymns, #4, For the Morning; From Hymns and Sacred Poems on a Variety of Divine Subjects, by Augustus Toplady, English Anglican cleric and hymn writer, (1740 – 1778)
The music for this reading is “Being Together” by Borrtex and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
JESUS, by whose Grace I live
From the fear of Evil kept,
Thou hast lengthen’d my Reprieve,
Held in Being while I slept;
With the Day my Heart renew:
Let me wake thy Will to do..
Since the last revolving Dawn
Scattered the Nocturnal Cloud,
O how many Souls have gone,
Unprepar’d, to meet their God!
Yet thou dost prolong my Breath,
Hast not seal’d my Eyes in Death.
O that I may keep thy Word,
Taught by thee to Watch and Pray!
To thy Service, dearest Lord,
Sanctify th’ ensuing Day;
Swift its fleeting Moments haste;
Doom’d, perhaps, to be my Last.
Crucified to all below,
Earth shall never be my Care:
Wealth and Honour I forego;
This my only Wish and Care
Thine in Life and Death to be,
Now and to Eternity.
