Evening

Ere I sleep, for every favor

Author: John Cennick
Published in 76 hymnals

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1 Ere I sleep, for every favor
This day showed
By my God,
I will bless my Saviour.

2 O my Lord, what shall I render
To thy Name,
Still the same,
Gracious, good, and tender?

3 Leave me not, but ever love me;
Let thy peace
Be my bliss,
Till thou hence remove me.

Amen.

Source: Trinity Hymnal #337

Author: John Cennick

John Cennick was born at Reading, Berkshire, in the year 1717. He became acquainted with Wesley and Whitefield, and preached in the Methodist connection. On the separation of Wesley and Whitefield he joined the latter. In 1745, he attached himself to the Moravians, and made a tour in Germany to fully acquaint himself with the Moravian doctrines. He afterwards ministered in Dublin, and in the north of Ireland. He died in London, in 1755, and was buried in the Moravian Cemetery, Chelsea. He was the author of many hymns, some of which are to be found in every collection. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Ere I sleep, for every favor
Title: Evening
Author: John Cennick
Meter: 8.6.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Ere I [we] sleep, for every favour. Cennick. [Evening.] Published in his Sacred Hymns for the Children of God, &c, 1741, No. 14, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, as the second of two hymns for evening. It was repeated in later editions of the same work, in Whitefield's Collection, 1754; in M. Madan's Psalms & Hymns, 1760; the early editions of Lady Huntingdon's Collection, and others of the old collections, and is also well known to modern hymnals, but usually in an abbreviated form, and sometimes as “Ere we sleep," &c. Orig. text in Stevenson's Hymns for the Church & Home, 1873, with the omission of stanza vii., which reads:—

"So whene'er in death I slumber,
Let me rise || With the wise,
Counted in their number."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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A Collection of Divine Hymns from Various Authors #d14

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns #379

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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #379

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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #379

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A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #622

A Compilation of Genuine Church Music. 4th ed. #d67

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A Selection of Psalms and Hymns #294

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A Selection of Psalms and Hymns #CCXCIV

Anglican Hymn Book #16

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Carmina Sacra #299

Christian Praise #d81

Church Melodies, a Collection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d236

Church Music, a Collection of Hymn Tunes. #d33

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Church Psalmody #H711

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Church Psalmody #711

Harmonia Sacra, being a Compilation of Church Music. 10th ed #d72

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Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #41

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Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #783

Hymns and Psalms #638a

Hymns and Psalms #638b

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Hymns for Children (2nd ed.) #viii

Hymns for Children. 3rd ed. #d4

Hymns for Schools and Families #d120

Immanuel Hymnal #d91

Jubilant Voices #d31

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Manual for the chapel of Girard College #38

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Manual of Christian Psalmody #711

Melodies of the Church #d220

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Offices of Worship and Hymns #877

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Plymouth Sunday-School Hymnal #19

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Select Songs No. 2 #15

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Small Church Music #7016

The American Hymnal #d109

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The Baptist Church Hymnal #C173

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The Choir #313b

The Christian Minstrel #d59

The Christian Minstrel #d71

The Christian Psalmist #d155

The Christian Psalmist (Numeral ed.) 10th ed., 1st rev. ed. #d83

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The Coronation Hymnal #43

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The Cyber Hymnal #1334

The Harmonia Sacra. 14th ed. #d71

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The Hymnal #511a

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The Hymnal #511b

The Hymnary for use in Baptist churches #555

The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada #555

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The Hymnary with Tunes #65a

The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes #947

The Modern Harp #d58

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The Mozart Collection of Sacred Music #239

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The Mozart Collection of Sacred Music #297

The National Psalmist #d37

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The New Harmonia Sacra #243

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The New Hymnary #65a

The New Village Harmony #d23

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The Palm #224c

The Philharmonia #d96

The Psaltery #d51

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The Sabbath School Melodist #147

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The Sacred Harp or Eclectic Harmony #146b

The Sacred Melodeon #d15

The Sanctus #d60

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The Sunday School Hymnary #147

The Temple Harp #d76

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The Voice of melody #134b

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Trinity Hymnal #337

Union Hymns #d103

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Worship Song #554

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