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DESCRIBING

3 The plague, and dearth, 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 power; 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 Sion's hill,

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The word and mystery to fulfil,

Thy confessors to' approve, Thy members on thy throne to place, And stamp thy name on every face, In glorious, heavenly love!

HYMN 63.

C. M.

WOE

PART FIRST. TOE to the men on earth who dwell, Nor dread the' Almighty's frown; When God doth all his wrath reveal, And shower his judgments down!

2 Sinners, expect those heaviest showers: To meet your God prepare!

For, lo! the seventh angel pours His phial in the air.

3 Lo! from their seats the mountains leap; The mountains are not found;

Transported far into the deep,

And in the ocean drown'd.

4 Who then shall live, and face the throne, And face the Judge severe?

[ gone,

When heaven and earth are fled and O where shall I appear?

5 Now, only now, against that hour We may a place provide,

Beyond the grave, beyond the power Of hell, our spirits hide:

6 Firm in the all- destroying shock, May view the final scene;

For, lo! the everlasting Rock Is cleft to take us in.

HYMN 64.

C. M.

PART SECOND.

1 DY faith we find the place above,

Beneath the shade of dying love, And in the clefts remain.

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

Assured that all who trust in thee Shall evermore abide.

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

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

4 The huge celestial bodies roll,

Amidst that 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.

JUDGMENT.

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6 Sublime upon his azure throne, He speaks the' Almighty word. His fiat is obey'd!' tis done; And Paradise restored.

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!

And when thou dost in glory come, My Lord, remember me! HYMN 65. 4-6's& 2-8's.

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1 VE virgin souls, arise,

With all the dead awake! Unto salvation wise,

Oil in your vessels take: Upstarting at the midnight cry,[ nigh!' " Behold the heavenly Bridegroom

2 He comes, he comes, to call

The nations to his bar,

And raise to glory all

Who fit for glory are:

Made ready for your full reward,

Go forth with joy to meet your Lord.

3 Go, meet him in the sky, Your everlasting friend: Your Head to glorify,

With all his saints ascend:

Ye pure in heart, obtain the grace To see, without a veil, his face!

4 Ye that have hele received

The unction from above,

And in his Spirit lived,

Obedient to his love,

Jesus shall claim you for his bride Rejoice with all the sanctified! The everlasting doors

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Shall soon the saints receive, Above yon angel powers

In glorious joy to live; Far from a world of grief and sin,

With God eternally shut in.

6 Then let us wait to hear

The trumpet's welcome sound; To see our Lord appear, Watching let us be found; When Jesus doth the heavens bow, Be found- as, Lord, thou find'st us now. * HYMN 66.

P. M.

Lo

0! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favour'd sinners slain; Thousand, thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of his train: Hallelujah! God appears on earth to reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him Robed in dreadful majesty;

Those who set at nought and sold him, Pierced and nail'd him to the tree, Deeply wailing, shall the true Messiah see.

3 The dear tokens of his passion

Still his dazzling body bears;

Cause of endless exultation

To his ransom'd worshippers:

With what rapture gaze we on those glorious scars!

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Yea, Amen! let all adore thee,

High on thy eternal throne; Saviour, take the power and glory;

Claim the kingdom for thine own!

Jah! Jehovah! everlasting God! come down.