Jesus, at thy command

Jesus, at thy command. Richard De Courcy* (1743-1803) or Augustus Montague Toplady* (1740-1778), or another, unknown.  JJ noted that this hymn was published in an undated edition of the Countess of Huntingdon*’s Collection of Hymns published in Bath ca. 1774 (p. 596). He gave other early examples, including Toplady's Psalms and Hymns* (1776) and the Second Edition of De Courcy’s Collection of Psalms and Hymns  (Shrewsbury, 1782). It was included in six stanzas in John Rippon*’s Selection of Hymns* (1787), where it was attributed to ‘Toplady’s Collection’ and given the heading ‘The Christian’s Spiritual Voyage’. It was based on Luke 8: 22: ‘Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went...