Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again

- Remove ads
|
User Links
- Log in
- Register

Discover

Collections

Store

Connect

Search

Collections

Discover

Lord, for the Mercies of the Night

Contents

Top Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Arrangements Page Scans Instances

Lord, for the mercies of the night

Author: John Mason (1683; alt.)
Published in 22 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Six Postludes on English Hymn Tunes

Representative Text

1 Lord, for the mercies of the night
Our humble thanks we pay,
And unto Thee we dedicate
The first fruits of the day.

2 Let this day praise Thee, O Lord God,
And so let all our days;
And O let heaven's eternal day
Be Thine eternal praise!

Amen.

Source: The Hymnbook #533

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: John Mason

Mason, John. The known facts of his life are scanty. He was the son of a Dissenting Minister, and the grandfather of John Mason, the author of A Treatise on Self-Knowledge. He was educated at Strixton School, Northants, and Clare Hall, Cambridge. After taking his M.A., he became Curate of Isham; and in 1668, Vicar of Stantonbury, Bucks. A little more than five years afterwards he was appointed Rector of Water-Stratford. Here he composed the volume containing The Songs of Praise, his paraphrase of The Song of Solomon, and the Poem on Dives and Lazarus, with which Shepherd's Penitential Cries was afterwards bound up. This volume passed through twenty editions. Besides the Songs of Praise, it contains six Penitential Cries by Mason, and it i… Go to person page >

Text Information

Text Information
Scripture References

First Line:	Lord, for the mercies of the night
Title:	Lord, for the Mercies of the Night
Author:	John Mason (1683; alt.)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 3:5
(hymns)

Tune

FARRANT

GRATITUDE (Herr)

ST. MARTIN'S NEW (Cooke)

All tunes published with 'Lord, for the Mercies of the Night'^ top

Timeline

Arrangements

Store

Piano/Organ

More Piano/Organ...

More arrangements ^ top

Page Scans

The Hymnbook (1955), p.441

Instances

Instances (1 - 22 of 22)

Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes #7

Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement #280

Church Book #514

Church Book #514

Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #453

Deutsches Lieder- und Melodienbuch #a170

Hymn Book for the use of Evangelical Lutheran Schools and Congregations #d60

Hymn Book #87

Hymnbook for Christian Worship #387

Hymns and Tunes #170

Hymns for Social Worship, Compiled for the Use of Canadian Baptist Churches #d170

Hymns for the use of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, by the Authority of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania #549

School and Parish Hymnal #247

Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part I #d116

Songs of Pilgrimage #324

The Book of Worship #440

The Church and Sunday-School Hymnal #285

The Hymnal #R9

The Hymnbook #533

The Hymns for the Use of Evangelical Lutheran Congregations #d265

Wartburg Hymnal #42

Worship and Hymns for All Occasions #d119

All instances ^ top

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us

It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.