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The second Advent.

P. M.

O! 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 Ev'ry 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 true Messiah see.

3 Ev'ry island, sea, and mountain,
Heav'n 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!

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

See the day of God appear!

5 Answer thine own bride and Spirit, Hasten, Lord, the general doom,

The new heav'n and earth t' inherit,
Take thy pining exiles home;
All creation

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Travails, groans, and bids thee come.

HE

E comes! he comes! the Saviour dear,
The seventh trumpet speaks him near:
His lightnings flash, his thunders roll,
He's welcome to the faithful soul;
Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome,
Welcome to the faithful soul.

2 From heav'n angelic voices sound,
See the Almighty Jesus crown'd!
Girt with omnipotence and grace,
And glory decks the Saviour's face;
Glory, glory, glory, glory,

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!
Hail him, hail him, hail him, hail him,
Hail him their triumphant Lord!

4 Shout, all the people of the sky,
And all the saints of the most high:
Our God, who now his right obtains,
For ever, and for ever reigns:

Ever, ever, ever, ever,

Ever, and for ever reigns.

5 The Father praise, the son adore,
The Spirit bless for evermore:
Salvation's glorious work is done,
We welcome thee, great three in one!
Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome,
Welcome thee, great three in one.

LO! he cometh! countless trumpets
Blow to raise the sleeping dead:
Midst ten thousand saints and angels,
See their great exalted Head.
Hallelujah Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Welcome, welcome Son of God!

2 Full of joyful expectation,

All behold the judge appear: Truth and justice go before him, Now the joyful sentence hear. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Welcome, welcome judge divine!

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

Banish all your fears and sorrows,
Endless praise be your employ."
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Welcome, welcome to the skies!

4 Now at once they rise to glory,

Jesus brings them to the King;

P. M.

There, with all the host of heaven,
They eternal anthems sing.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah ;
Boundless glory to the Lamb!

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Judgment.

AY of judgment, day of wonders! Hark! the trumpet's awful sound, Louder than a thousand thunders, Shakes the vast creation round!

P. M.

How the summons will the sinner's heart confound.

2 See the Judge our nature wearing,
Cloth'd in majesty divine!

You, who long for his appearing,
Then shall say, "This God is mine!"
Gracious Saviour, own me in that day for
thine.

3 At his call the dead awaken,
Rise to life from earth and sea;
All the pow'rs of nature shaken
By his look, prepare to flee:

Careless sinner, what will then become of
thee?

4 Satan, who now tries to please you,
Lest you timely warning take,

In that awful day will seize you,
Plunge you in the burning lake:

Think, poor sinner, thy eternal all's at stake.

5 But to those who have confessed,
Lov'd, and serv'd the Lord below;
He will say, "Come near ye blessed,
See the kingdom I bestow;

You for ever shall my love and glory know."

160 Give glory to God before the day of darkness

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cometh. S. M.

HE swift-declining day,
How fast its moments fly!

While ev'ning's broad and gloomy shade
Gains on the western sky.

And use the hours of light;

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Know that its Maker can command
An instantaneous night.

His word blots out the sun

In its meridian-blaze;

And cuts from smiling vig'rous youth
The remnant of its days.

On the dark mountain's brow
Your feet shall quickly slide;
And from its airy summit dash
Your momentary pride.

Give glory to the Lord,

Who rules the whirling sphere; Submissive at his footstool bow, And seek salvation there.