PETITIONARY HYMNS
POEM V. For the evening.
Augustus Toplady (1740–1778)

od of love, whose truth and grace
   Reach unbounded as the skies,
Hear the creature’s feeble praise,
   Let my evening sacrifice
Mount as incense to thy throne,
On the merits of thy son.

Me thy providence has led
   Through another busy day:
Over me thy wings were spread,
   Chasing sin and death away:
Thou has been my faithful shield,
Thou my footsteps has upheld.

Tho’ the sable veil of night
   Hides the cheering face of heav’n,
Let me triumph in the sight
   Of my guilt in thee forgiv’n
In my heart the witness feel,
See the great invisible.

I will lay me down to sleep,
   Sweetly take my rest in thee,
Ev’ry moment brought a step
   Nearer to eternity:
I shall soon from earth ascend,
Quickly reach my journey’s end.

All my sins imputed were
   To my dear, incarnate God;
Bury’d in his grave they are,
   Drown’d in his atoning blood:
Me thou wilt not now condemn,
Righteous and complete in him.

In the Savior’s right I claim
   All the blessings he hath bought;
For my soul the dying Lamb
   Hath a full redemption wrought;
Heaven through his desert is mine;
Christ’s I am, and Christ is thine!

—from The Complete Works of Augustus Toplady (Sprinkle Publications, 1987).

salme 1
(Geneva Bible)

1 Blessed is the man that doeth not walke in the counsell of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in ye seate of the scornefull:
2 But his delite is in the Lawe of the Lord, and in his Lawe doeth he meditate day and night.
3 For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper.
4 The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
5 Therefore the wicked shall not stande in the iudgement, nor sinners in the assemblie of the righteous.
6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, and the way of the wicked shall perish.

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