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A Funeral Hymn.

2 Come, see how Christians wail their dead;
Come, share in our mysterious bliss ;
On Satan, sin, and death to tread,
O what an happiness is this!

3 Though once ye intermeddled not
With the strange madness of our joys,
Ye all may be to Eden brought,

And heighten our triumphant noise.

4 With tears of joy our eyes o'erflow, At parting with our dearest friend; From us we gladly let her go

To pleasures that shall never end.

5 We know in whom we have believed,
Our faith in Jesus is not vain ;

To all who have their Lord received
To live is Christ, to die is gain.

6 Our sister's flesh shall turn to dust, Her sacred dust in hope shall sleep, The temple of the Holy Ghost

The still indwelling God shall keep.

7 Triumphantly she laid it down,

For time to waste, and worms devour;
In weakness and dishonour sown,
Till raised in glory and in power.

8 A body natural it lies,

A lifeless lump of mouldering clay; But spiritual it soon shall rise,

No more to perish or decay.

9 This corruptible body soon
Shall all incorruptible be,
This mortal quickly shall put on
Its robes of immortality.

10 The terrible, all-conquering king
Shall then a final period have :
Say then, O death, where is thy sting?
Where is thy victory, O grave?

II The sting of death, our sin, is gone,
Scatter'd are all our guilty fears;
Thanks be to God, through Christ alone,
Who makes us more than conquerors.

12 God only doth the victory give;

He shall our glorious flesh restore,

His many sons to heaven receive,
Where time and death shall be no more.

ANOTHER.

I Thessalonians iv. 13, &c.

1 LET the world lament their dead,
As sorrowing without hope;
When a friend of ours is freed,
We cheerfully look up,
Cannot murmur or complain,

For our dead we cannot grieve;
Death to them, to us, is gain;
In Jesus we believe.

2 We believe that Christ our Head
For us resign'd His breath,
He was number'd with the dead,
And dying conquer'd death;

A Funeral Hymn.

Burst the barriers of the tomb;

Death could Him no longer keep:
He is the Firstfruits become

Of those in Him that sleep.

3 God, who Him to life restored,
Shall all His members raise,
Bring them quicken'd with their Lord,
The children of His grace.
We who then on earth remain

Shall not sooner be brought home;
All the dead shall rise again
To meet the general doom.

4 Jesus, faithful to His word,

Shall with a shout descend;

All heaven's host their glorious Lord
Shall pompously attend;

Christ shall come with dreadful noise,

Lightnings swift, and thunders loud,

With the great archangel's voice,
And with the trump of God.

5 First the dead in Christ shall rise;
Then we who yet remain

Shall be caught up to the skies,
And see our Lord again;

We shall meet Him in the air,

All wrapt up to heaven shall be, Find, and love, and praise Him there To all eternity.

6 Who can tell the happiness

This glorious hope affords !

Joy unutter'd we possess

In these reviving words:

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Happy while on earth we breathe,
Mightier bliss ordain'd to know,
Trampling down sin, hell, and death,
To the third heaven we go.

ANOTHER.

I BLESSING, honour, thanks, and praise,
Pay we, gracious God, to Thee;
Thou in Thine abundant grace
Givest us the victory:
True and faithful to Thy word,
Thou hast glorified Thy Son;
Jesus Christ, our dying Lord,

He for us the fight hath won.

2 Lo! the prisoner is released;
Lighten'd of his fleshly load,
Where the weary are at rest
He is gather'd into God!
Lo! the pain of life is past,

All his warfare now is o'er,
Death and hell behind are cast,

Grief and suffering are no more.

3 Yes, the Christian's course is run,
Ended is the glorious strife,

Fought the fight, the work is done,
Death is swallow'd up of life;
Borne by angels on their wings,
Far from earth the spirit flies,
Finds his God, and sits and sings
Triumphing in paradise.

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4 Join we then with one accord

In the new, the joyful song; Absent from our loving Lord

We shall not continue long : We shall quit the house of clay, We a better lot shall share, We shall see the realms of day,

Meet our happy brother there!

5 Let the world bewail their dead,
Fondly of their loss complain;
Brother, friend, by Jesus freed,
Death to thee, to us, is gain;
Thou art enter'd into joy :

Let the unbelievers mourn,
We in songs our lives employ,
Till we all to God return.

ANOTHER.

1 HARK, a voice divides the sky! Happy are the faithful dead;

In the Lord who sweetly die,

They from all their toils are freed.
Them the Spirit hath declared
Blest, unutterably blest ;
Jesus is their great Reward,

Jesus is their endless Rest.

2 Follow'd by their works they go

Where their Head had gone before,

Reconciled by grace below;

Grace had open'd mercy's door:

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