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JESUS, the helpless creature's friend,
To thee my all I dare commend;
Thou canst preserve my feeble soul,
When lightnings blaze from pole to pole.

HYMN CXXVI. P. M.

The last Judgment.

I.

O! he cometh! countless trumpets
Blow to raise the sleeping dead;

Mid ten thousand saints and angels
See their great exalted head:
Hallelujah,

Welcome, welcome, Son of God.

II.

Now his merit, by the harpers,
Thro' th' eternal deep resound;
Now resplendent shine his nail-prints,
Every eye shall see his wounds:
They who pierc'd him

Shall at his appearance wail.

III.

Full of joyful expectation,

Saints behold the judge appear: Truth and justice go before him, Now the joyful sentence hear:

Hallelujah,

Welcome, welcome, Judge divine.

IV.

"Come, ye blessed of my father, "Enter into life and joy;

"Banish all your fears and sorrows, "Endless praise be your employ: Hallelujah,

Welcome, welcome to the skies.

V.

Now at once they rise to glory,
JESUS brings them to the king;
There, with all the host of heaven,
They eternal anthems sing:
Hallelujah,

Boundless glory to the Lamb.

HYMN CXXVII. L. M.

The last Judgment.

I.

O! he comes with clouds descending,
Once for favour'd sinners slain!

Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of his train:

II.

Every eye shall now behold him
Rob'd in dreadful majesty ;

Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierc'd and nail'd him to the tree,

Deeply wailing,

Shall the great Messiah see.

III.

Every island, sea, and mountain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away:
All who hate him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day;
Come to judgment!

Come to judgment! come away.

IV.

Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear!
All his saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet him in the air

Hallelujah!

See the day of GOD appear!

V.

Answer thine own bride and spirit,
Hasten, LORD, the general doom!
The new heaven and earth t' inherit,
Take thy pining exiles home :
All creation

Travails, groans, and bids thee come!

VI.

Yea! amen! let all adore thee,
High on the exalted throne!

Saviour take thy power and glory:
Claim the kingdoms for thine own,
O come quickly

Hallelujah! come, LORD, come.

HYMN CXXVIII. L. M.

The last Judgment.

I.

E comes! he comes! to judge the

"HE world,

Aloud th' archangel cries:

While thunders roll from pole to pole;
And lightnings cleave the skies.

II.

Th' affrighted nations hear the sound
And upward lift their eyes:

The slumb'ring tenants of the ground
In living armies rise.

III.

Amid the shouts of numerous friends,
Of hosts divinely bright,

The judge in solemn pomp descends,
Array'd in robes of light.

IV.

His head and hairs are white as snow,
His eyes a fiery flame,

A radiant crown adorns his brow,
And JESUS is his name.

V.

Writ on his thigh his name appears,
And scars his vict'ries tell;
Lo! in his hand the conqu'ror bears
The keys of death and hell.

VI.

So he ascends the judgment-seat,
And at his dread command,
Myriads of creatures round his feet
In solemn silence stand.

VII.

Princes and peasants here expect
Their last, their righteous doom;
The men who dar'd his grace reject,
And they who dar'd presume.

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VIII.

Depart ye sons of vice and sin! "
The injur'd JESUS cries;

While the long kindling wrath within,
Flashes from both his eyes.

IX.

And now in words divinely sweet,
With rapture in his face,
Aloud his sacred lips repeat

The sentence of his grace:

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"Well done, my, good and faithful sons, "The children of my love;

"Receive the sceptres, crowns and thrones, Prepar'd for you above."