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As done to himself he will own,

And crown with an endless reward: They are honour'd whom he shall approve; Their riches shall never decay; Their joy is complete in his love; Their tears shall be all wip'd away.

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His God and his Father is ours:

Our foes and our arms are the same:
The world, with its dangerous powers,
By faith and by hope he o'ercame ;
Then let us march cheerfully on,
The road that before us he trod;
It leads us where he is now gone,
To heaven, himself, and his God.

221.

The Judge Descending.

1

Lo! he comes from heaven descending,
Sent to judge both quick and dead!
Midst ten thousand saints and angels,
See our great exalted Head:
Hallelujah!

Welcome, welcome, Son of God.

2

Full of awful expectation,

All before the Judge appear;
Truth and justice go before him;
Now the joyful sentence hear:
Hallelujah!

Welcome, welcome, Judge divine.
3

"Come, ye blessed of my Father,
Enter into life and joy;

Banish all your fears and sorrows,
Endless praise be your employ :'
Hallelujah!

Welcome, welcome to the skies !

4

Now at once they rise to glory,
Jesus brings them to the King;
There, with all the hosts of heaven,
They eternal anthems sing;
Hallelujah!

Glory be to God on high!

222.

Death and Judgment.

1

HEAVEN has pronounc'd the great decree,
That Adam's race must die:
One general ruin sweeps them down,
And low in dust they lie.

2

Ye living men, the tomb survey
Where you must quickly dwell;
Hark how the awful mandate sounds,
In every funeral knell !

Once

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you must die, and once for all; The solemn purport weigh;

For know, that heaven and hell are hung On that important day.

Those eyes, so long in darkness veil'd,
Must wake the Judge to see ;
And every word, and every thought,
Must pass his scrutiny.

5

Oh may I in the Judge behold

My Saviour and my Friend;
And, far beyond the reach of death,
With all his saints ascend.

223.

The Dissolution of the Present World.

1

My waken'd soul! extend thy wings
Beyond the verge of mortal things;
See this vain world in smoke decay,
And rocks and mountains melt away.

2

This wreck of nature all around,
The angels' shout, the trumpet's sound,
Loud the descending Judge proclaim,
And echo his tremendous name.

3

Children of Adam! all appear
With reverence round his awful bar:
For, as his lips pronounce, ye go
To heavenly bliss or dreadful woe.

4

Lord! to mine eyes this scene display
Frequent through each revolving day;
And let thy grace my soul prepare
To meet its full redemption there!

224.

Approaching Death and Judgment.

1

THE day approaches, O my soul !
The great decisive day,

Which from the verge of mortal life
Shall bear thee far away.

2

Another day more awful dawns;
Behold the Judge appear!

All nations stand before his bar
Their final doom to hear.

3

Yet does one short preparing hour,
One precious hour remain;

Rouse then, my soul! with all thy power,
Nor let it pass in vain.

225.

The Day of Judgment.

1

HEAR, O ye dead, awake, arise!
The solemn trumpet shakes the skies;
The awful Judge is near:
Angelic guards attend him down ;
And flaming round his fiery throne,
A thousand terrors glare.

2

Pale guilt looks upward with amaze;
She trembles while the terrors blaze,
And conscience tells her doom:
Struck with unutterable dread,
The sinner fain would hide his head,
And shrink into the tomb.

3

But ye, his happy saints, rejoice!
No terrors hath the Monarch's voice,
His looks no frowns, for you :
He comes your spirits to convey
To regions of eternal day,

To joys for ever new.

4

Bless'd of my Father! haste,' he cries
In joyful triumph mount the skies,
To nobler worlds above :

There shall ye share my blissful sight,
And taste the fulness of delight
In my eternal love.'

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226.

The Day of Judgment anticipated.

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GREAT God, what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!
The Judge of mankind doth appear,
On clouds of glory seated:

The trumpet sounds, the graves restore
The dead which they contained before :
Prepare, my soul, to meet him.

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