Christ's Intercession

Awake, sweet gratitude and sing

Author: Augustus Toplady
Published in 44 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Awake, sweet gratitude, and sing;
Wake, harp and timbrel, lute and lyre;
Let the whole earth with praises ring,
And mercies gratitude inspire.

2 The harvest moon has fill'd her horn;
Loud sound the God of nature's praise:
From the first beams of rosy morn,
Until the sun's declining rays.

3 'Tis to his gracious care we owe,
The early and the latter rain;
At his command the sunbeams glow,
And load the earth with ripen'd grain.

4 'Tis he whose goodness has supplied
Abundant stores for time to come;
While on the gentle zephyrs ride
The joyful shouts of harvest home.

5 Thus, while the "God of nature" claims
Our fervent gratitude and praise;
May we adore his sweeter names,
And love and serve the God of grace.


Source: The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #190

Author: Augustus Toplady

Toplady, Augustus Montague, the author of "Rock of Ages," was born at Farnham, Surrey, November 4, 1740. His father was an officer in the British army. His mother was a woman of remarkable piety. He prepared for the university at Westminster School, and subsequently was graduated at Trinity College, Dublin. While on a visit in Ireland in his sixteenth year he was awakened and converted at a service held in a barn in Codymain. The text was Ephesians ii. 13: "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." The preacher was an illiterate but warm-hearted layman named Morris. Concerning this experience Toplady wrote: "Strange that I, who had so long sat under the means of grace in England, should b… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Awake, sweet gratitude and sing
Title: Christ's Intercession
Author: Augustus Toplady
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Awake, sweet gratitude, and sing. A. M. Toplady. [Christ's Intercession.] In the Gospel Magazine, 1771, this hymn is given in 10 stanza of 61. From the Gospel Magazine it passed at an early date into various collections, but in an abbreviated form. These included Rippon's Selection, 1787, to which possibly, more than to any other hymnal, modern collections are indebted for their text both in Great Britain, and America. The full original text was included in Sedgwick's reprint of Toplady's Hymns, 1860, p. 150. It is curious to note that this hymn was omitted from Toplady's Psalms and Hymns, 1776, and from an edition of his Hymns, published in 1856.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Tune

BELMONT (Gardiner)

This tune has been mis-attributed to various other composers, but is clearly the work of the above-named composer.

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ST. STEPHEN (Jones)


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