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Today’s Christian poetry selection comes from a hymn by Augustus Toplady, also famous for “Rock of Ages.” It is a beautiful piece inviting meditation on the atonement and the assurance it brings.

From whence this fear and unbelief?
Hath not the Father put to grief
His spotless Son for me?
And will the righteous Judge of men
Condemn me for that debt of sin
Which, Lord, was charged on thee?

Complete atonement Thou hast made,
And to the utmost farthing paid
Whate’er Thy people owed;
Nor can His wrath on me take place,
If sheltered in Thy righteousness
And sprinkled with Thy blood.

If Thou hast my discharge procured,
And freely in my room endured
The whole of wrath divine,
Payment God cannot twice demand,
First at thy bleeding Surety’s hand,
And then again at mine.

Thurn then, my soul, unto thy rest;
The merits of they great High Priest
Have bought thy liberty;
Trust in His efficacious blood,
Nor fear thy bandishment from God,
Since Jesus died for thee!