The Christian's Spiritual Voyage

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Jesus, at Thy command

Author: Augustus Toplady
Published in 179 hymnals

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1 Jesus at thy command
I launch into the deep
And leave my native land,
Where sin lulls all asleep;
For thee I would the world resign,
And sail to heaven with thee and thine.

2 Thou art my Pilot, wise,
My compass in thy word;
My soul each storm defies,
While I have such a Lord;
I'll trust thy faithfulness and power,
To save me in the trying hour.

3 Though rock and quicksands deep
Through all all my passage lie,
Yet Christ will safely keep,
And guard me with his eye;
My anchor, hope, will firm abide,
And every boisterous storm outride.

4 By faith I see the land,
The port of endless rest;
Through grace I hope to stand
And sing among the blest.
O may I reach the heavenly shore,
Where winds and waves distress no more.

5 Whene'er becalmed I lie,
When wind and storm subside,
Then to my succor fly,
And keep me near thy side;
For more the treacherous calm I dread
Than tempests bursting o'er my head.

6 Come, heavenly wind, and blow
A prosperous gale of grace;
Waft me from all below,
To heaven, my destined place;
There, in full sail, my port I'll find,
And leave the world and sin behind.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #785

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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 >

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First Line:	Jesus, at Thy command
Title:	The Christian's Spiritual Voyage
Author:	Augustus Toplady
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 107:30
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Notes

Jesus, at Thy command. [Life a Voyage—Christ the Pilot.] This hymn is in an undated edition of Lady Huntingdon's Collection of Hymns, published at Bath about 1774. It is No. 136, in 7 stanzas of 6 lines. It is also given in Coughlan's 1775 Appendix to J. Bazlee's [q. v.] Select Collection of Psalms & Hymns, No. 311, where it is entitled, "The Believer's Pilot.” In 1776 it reappeared in A. M. Toplady's Psalms & Hymns, No. 312, in De Courcy's Collection, 2nd edition, 1782, and again in later hymn-books. In modern collections it is sometimes attributed to Toplady, and again to De Courcy (q. v.), but in error. It is associated with the Lady Huntingdon Connexion from the first, and is possibly by one of that denomination. A part of this hymn is given in the American Church Pastorals, Boston, 1864, as, "By faith, I see the land." It begins with stanza v., and is taken from Toplady's Psalms & Hymns, as above.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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