The Southern harmony, and musical companion containing a choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems |
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[He comes! he comes! to judge the world] |
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[He comes! he comes! to judge the world]
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He comes! he comes! to judge the world,Aloud th' archangel cries;
While thunders roll from pole to pole,
And lightnings cleave the skies;
Th' affrighted nations hear the sound,
And upward lift their eyes;
The slumb'ring tenants of the ground
In living armies rice.
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Amid the shouts of numerous friends,Of hosts divinely bright,
The Judge in solemn pomp descends,
Array'd in robes of light;
His head and hair are white as snow,
His eyes a fiery flame,
A radiant crown adorns his brow,
And Jesus is his name.
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Writ on his thigh his name appears,And scars his victories tell;
Lo! in his hand the conqueror bears
The keys of death and hell:
So he ascends the judgment-seat,
And at his dread command,
Myriads of creatures round his feet
In solemn silence stand.
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Princes and peasants here expectTheir last, their righteous doom;
The men who dared his grace reject,
And they who dared presume.
“Depart, ye sons of vice and sin,”
The injured Jesus cries,
While the long kindling wrath within
Flashes from both his eyes.
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And now in words divinely sweet,With rapture in his face,
Aloud his sacred lips repeat
The sentence of his grace:
“Well done, my good and faithful sons,
The children of my love,
Receive the sceptres, crowns and thrones,
Prepared for you above.”
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