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All heav'n's host their glorious Lord
Shall joyfully attend:

Christ shall come with dreadful noise,
Lightnings swift, and thunders loud,
With the great archangel's voice,
And with the trump of God.

2 First the dead in Christ shall rise;
Then we that yet remain,
Shall be caught up to the skies,
And see our Lord again.
We shall meet him in the air,
All wrapt up to heav'n shall be,
Find, and love, and praise him there,
To all eternity.

3 Who can tell the happiness
This glorious hope affords?
Joy unutter'd we possess,
In these reviving words:
Happy, while on earth we breathe,
Mightier bliss ordain'd to know!
Trampling down sin, hell, and death,
To the third heav'n we go!

Arlington.] HYMN 583. C. M.

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OY faith we find the place above,
The Rock that rent in twain:
Beneath the shade of dying love,
And in the cleft remain.

2 Jesus, to thy dear wounds we flee;
We sink into thy side;

Assur'd that all who trust in thee,
Shall evermore abide.

3 Then let the thund'ring trumpet sound; The latest lightnings glare;

The mountains melt; the solid ground Dissolve as liquid air;

4 The huge celestial bodies roll,
Amidst the general fire;

And shrivel as a parchment scroll,
And all in smoke expire!

5 Yet still the Lord, the Saviour reigns,
When nature is destroy'd:
And no created thing remains,
Throughout the flaming void.

6 Sublime upon his azure throne,
He speaks th' almighty word:
His fiat is obey'd! 'tis done;
And Paradise restor❜d.

7 So be it! let this system end!
This ruinous earth and skies!
The New Jerusalem descend!
The New Creation rise!

8 Thy power omnipotent assume!
Thy brightest majesty!

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And when thou dost in glory come,
My Lord, remember me!

Witham.] HYMN 584. 4 8's & 2 6's.

OW happy are the little flock,

HOW

Who safe beneath their guardian-rock,
In all commotions rest!

When war's and tumult's waves run high,
Unmov'd above the storm they lie,
They lodge in Jesu's breast.

2 Such happiness, O Lord, have we,
By mercy gather'd unto thee,

Before the floods descend;

And while the bursting cloud comes down,
We mark the vengeful day begun,

And calmly wait the end.

3 The plague, and death, and din of war,
Our Saviour's swift approach declare,
And bid our hearts arise:

Earth's basis shook confirms our hope,
Its cities' fall but lifts us up

To meet thee in the skies.

4 Thy tokens we with joy confess,
The war proclaims the Prince of Peace,
The earthquake speaks thy pow'r :
The famine all thy fulness brings,
The plague presents thy healing wings.
And nature's final hour.

5 Whatever ills the world befall,
A pledge of endless good we call,
A sign of Jesus near;

His chariot will not long delay;

We hear the rumbling wheels, and pray.
"Triumphant Lord appear."

6 Appear with clouds on Zion's hill,
The word and myst'ry to fulfil,
Thy confessors t' approve:
Thy members on thy throne to place
And stamp thy name on ev'ry face,
In glorious heav'nly love!

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Egypt.] HYMN 585. S. M.

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EHOLD! with awful pomp,

The Judge prepares to come,

Th' archangel sounds the dreadful trump :
And wakes the gen❜ral doom.

2 Nature, in wild amaze,

Her dissolution mourns,

Blushes of blood the moon deface;

The sun to darkness turns.

3 The living look with dread; The frighted dead arise:

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Start from the monumental bed,
And lift their ghastly eyes.

4 Horrors all hearts appal,

They quake; they shriek; they cry: Bid rocks and mountains on them fall; But rocks and mountains fly.

5 Ye wilful, wanton fools,

Let dangers make you wise: Carnal professors, careless souls, Unclose your sleeping eyes.

6 'Tis time we all awake:

The dreadful day draws near:
Sinners, your proud presumption check,
And stop your wild career.

7 Now is th' accepted time,
To Christ for mercy fly;

O turn, repent, and trust in him:
And you shall never die.

Great God, in whom we live,
Prepare us for that day.
Help us in Jesus to believe,

To watch, and wait, and pray.

Millicent.] HYMN 586. 8's & 7's.

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IGHTEOUS God! whose vengeful phials
All our fears and thoughts exceed,

Big with woes and fiery trials,
Hanging, bursting o'er our head:
While thou visitest the nations,

Thy selected people spare;
Arm our caution'd souls with patience,
Fill our humbled hearts with prayer.

2 If thy dreadful controversy

With all flesh is now begun;

In thy wrath remember mercy;
Mercy first and last be shown;
Plead thy cause with sword and fire:
Shake us till the curse remove;
Till thou com'st, the world's desire,
Conquering all with sovereign love.

3 Every fresh alarming token

More confirms the faithful word;
Nature, (for its Lord hath spoken,)
Must be suddenly restor❜d:
From this national confusion;

From this ruin'd earth and skies;
See the times of restitution: ;
See the new creation rise!

4 Vanish, then, this world of shadows;
Pass the former things away:
Lord! appear! appear to glad us
With the dawn of endless day!
O conclude this mortal story!
Throw this universe aside!
Come, eternal King of Glory,

Now descend, and take thy Bride!

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DISMISSION.

Dismission.] HYMN 587. 7's & 8's.
ORD, dismiss us with thy blessing,
Bid us now depart in peace;

Still on heavenly manna feeding,
Let our faith a d love increase:
Fill each breast with consolation;
Up to thee our hearts we raise:
When we reach our blissful station,
Then we'll give thee nobler praise.
Hallelujah!

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