433.
Beatitude. 2.
“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
1
Fears, perplexities, and mourning,
Often we are call'd to know,
In our rough and stormy passage
Through this world of sin and woe;
But, the joys that wait the faithful,
Will a recompense bestow.
2
Christ, the hope of man, hath promised
To the captive, friendless, bound,
His effectual consolations,
If, in ways of wisdom, found,
With redemption, everlasting,
Where the saints, the Lamb surround.
3
In that world of light and glory,
We on angels' fare shall feed,
Where our pleasures, ever flowing,
From the fount of God proceed:
Joys, substantial and increasing,
Which reverse shall not succeed!
4
Let, no longer, Zion's Travellers
Hang the head, and heave the sigh,
Earth is theirs, and theirs is heaven!
Prospects vast before them lie
In reversion, stretching forward
To the throne of God, on high!
