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Thou the victory hast won, Saved them by thy grace alone, Caught them up thy face to see, Thanks be all ascribed to thee!

4 Happy in thy glorious love, We shall from the vale remove, Glad partakers of our hope, We shall soon be taken up; Meet again our heavenly friends, Blest with bliss that never ends, Joined to all thy hosts above, Happy in thy glorious love!

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TEARKEN to the solemn voice, The awful midnight cry; Waiting souls, rejoice, rejoice, And see the Bridegroom nigh; Lo! he comes to keep his word, Light and joy his looks impart; Go ye forth to meet your Lord, And meet him in your heart.

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2 Ye who faint beneath the load Of sin, your heads lift up; See your great redeeming God, He comes, and bids you hope: In the midnight of your grief, Jesus doth his mourners cheer; Lo! he brings you sure relief; Believe, and feel him here.

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.

5 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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HOU Judge of quick and dead, Before whose bar severe, With holy joy, or guilty dread,

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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:

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JUDGMENT.

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, Arise, and meet him in the sky,

And meet your instant doom!" 4 Q 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

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

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1 ITE comes! he comes! the Judge severe,

Н' 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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great archangel's trump shall sound,

roar) Tear up the graves, nd cleave the ground, And make the greedy 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. 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.

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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.