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3 Ye whose loins are girt, stand forth,
Whose lamps are burning bright;
Worthy, in your Saviour's worth,
To walk with Him in white;
Jesus bids your hearts be clean;
Bids you all His promise prove;
Jesus comes to cast out sin,
And perfect you in love.
4 Wait we all in patient hope,
Till Christ, the Judge, shall come;
We shall soon be all caught up
To meet the general doom:
In an hour to us unknown,
As a thief in deepest night,
Christ shall suddenly come down,
With all His saints in light.
Happy he whom Christ shall find
Watching to see Him come;
Him the Judge of all mankind
Shall bear triumphant home:
Who can answer to His word?
Which of you dares meet His day?
"Rise, and come to judgment!"-Lord,
We rise, and come away.

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C. WESLEY.

THOU Judge of quick and dead,

Before whose bar severe,

With holy joy, or guilty dread,
We all shall soon appear;
Our cautioned souls prepare
For that tremendous day;

And fill us now with watchful care,
And stir us up to pray:

To pray, and wait the hour,

That awful hour unknown;

When, robed in majesty and power,

Thou shalt from heaven come down,

The' immortal Son of Man,
To judge the human race,

With all Thy Father's dazzling train,
With all Thy glorious grace.

3 To damp our earthly joys,
To' increase our gracious fears,
For ever let the' Archangel's voice
Be sounding in our ears;
The solemn midnight cry,
"Ye dead, the Judge is come;
Arisé, and meet Him in the sky,
And meet your instant doom!"
O may we thus be found
Obedient to His word;
Attentive to the trumpet's sound,
And looking for our Lord!
O may we thus ensure

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Our lot among the blest;
And watch a moment to secure
An everlasting rest!

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C.M.

ADDISON.

WO'erwhelmed with guilt and fear,

HEN rising from the bed of death,

I see my Maker, face to face,

Oh! how shall I appear?

2 If yet, while pardon may be found,
And mercy may be sought,

My soul with inward horror shrinks,
And trembles at the thought;-

3 When Thou, O Lord, shalt stand disclosed In majesty severe,

And sit in judgment on my soul,
Oh! how shall I appear?

4 Oh! may my broken contrite heart
Timely my sins lament,

And early, with repentant tears,
Eternal woe prevent!

5 For, never shall my soul despair
Her pardon to secure,

Who knows Thine only Son has died
To make that pardon sure.

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SCOTT.

THAT day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away,What power shall be the sinner's stay? How shall he meet that dreadful day? 2 When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead; 3 Oh! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away.

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E comes! He comes! the Judge severe The seventh trumpet speaks Him near! His lightnings flash; His thunders roll: How welcome to the faithful soul! 2 From heaven angelic voices sound; See the Almighty Jesus crowned! Girt with omnipotence and grace; And glory decks the Saviour's face. 3 Descending on His azure throne, He claims the kingdoms for His own; The kingdoms all obey His word, And hail Him their triumphant Lord. 4 Shout, all the people of the sky! And all the saints of the Most High; Our Lord, who now His right obtains, For ever and for ever reigns.

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HE great Archangel's trump shall sound, While twice tenthousand thundersroar,) Tear up the graves, and cleave the ground, And make the greetly sea restore.

2 The greedy sea shall yield her dead, The earth no more her slain conceal ;

Sinners shall lift their guilty head,
And shrink to see a yawning hell.
8 But we, who now our Lord confess,
And faithful to the end endure,
Shall stand in Jesu's righteousness,
Stand, as the Rock of Ages, sure.

4 We, while the stars from heaven shall fall,
And mountains are on mountains hurled,
Shall stand, unmoved, amidst them all,
And smile to see a burning world.

5 The earth, and all the works therein,
Dissolve, by raging flames destroyed:
While we survey the awful scene,
And mount above the fiery void.
6 By faith we now transcend the skies,
And on that ruined world look down:
By love above all height we rise,
And share the everlasting throne.

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JESUS, faithful to His word,

Shall with a shout descend;

C. WESLEY.

All heaven's host their glorious Lord
Shall pompously 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 rapt up to heaven shall be;

Find, and love, and praise Him there,

To all eternity.

Who can tell the happiness

This glorious hope affords?

Joy unuttered we possess

In these reviving words:

Happy while on earth we breathe,
Mightier bliss ordained to know,
Trampling down sin, hell, and death,
To the third heaven we go.

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THOU God of glorious majesty,

To Thee, against myself, to Thee,
A worm of earth, I cry :

A half-awakened child of man,
An heir of endless bliss or pain,
A sinner born to die!

2 Lo! on a narrow neck of land,
"Twixt two unbounded seas I stand,
Secure, insensible:

A point of time, a moment's space,
Removes me to that heavenly place,
Or shuts me up in hell.

3 O God, mine inmost soul convert !
And deeply on my thoughtful heart
Eternal things impress:

Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And tremble on the brink of fate,
And wake to righteousness.
4 Before me place, in dread array,
The pomp of that tremendous day,

When Thou with clouds shalt come,

To judge the nations at Thy bar;
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there,
To meet a joyful doom?

5 Be this my one great business here,
With serious industry and fear
Eternal bliss to' ensure :
Thine utmost counsel to fulfil,
And suffer all Thy righteous will,
And to the end endure.

6 Then, Saviour, then, my soul receive,
Transported from this vale to live
And reign with Thee above;
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight,
And hope in full supreme delight,
And everlasting love.

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