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Judge of justice! Thee I pray,
Wash Thou all my sins away,
Ere that awful reckoning day.

Thou didst heal the sinner's grief,
And didst hear the dying thief;
Even I may hope relief.

Lord, Thine ear in mercy bow,
Broken is my heart and low,
Guard of my last end be Thou.

Prepare to meet thy God.

P.M.

GREAT GOD! what do I see and hear!

The end of things created!

The Judge of all men doth appear,
On clouds of glory seated!

The trumpet sounds; the graves restore
The dead which they contained before:
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.

The dead in Christ shall first arise,
At the last trumpet's sounding;
Caught up to meet Him in the skies,
With joy their Lord surrounding.
No gloomy fears their souls dismay,
His presence sheds eternal day

On those prepared to meet Him.

The ungodly, filled with guilty fears,
Behold His wrath prevailing,

For they shall rise, and find their tears
And sighs are unavailing.

The day of grace is past and gone;
Trembling, they stand before the Throne,
All unprepared to meet Him.

Great God! what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!
The Judge of all men doth appear,

On clouds of glory seated!

Low at His cross, I view the day
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
And thus prepare to meet Him.

The Lord hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the 19 tives, and recovery of sight to the blind.

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HARK, the glad sound! the Saviour

comes,

The Saviour promised long!
Let every heart prepare a throne,
And every voice a song.

He comes, the prisoners to release,
In Satan's bondage held;

The gates of brass before Him break,
The iron fetters yield.

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He comes, from darkest films of vice
To clear the mental ray,

And on the eyelids of the blind
To pour celestial day.

He comes, the broken heart to bind,
The bleeding soul to cure,
And with the riches of His grace
To bless the humble poor.

Our glad hosannahs, Prince of Peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim,
And heaven's eternal arches ring
With Thy beloved name!

Behold, He cometh with clouds! and every eye shall see Him, and they also which 20 pierced Him.

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O! He comes, with clouds descending,

Once for favoured sinners slain;

Thousand, thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train ;
Alleluia!

Jesus comes, and comes to reign !

Every eye shall now behold Him,
Robed in dreadful majesty ;

They who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,

Deeply wailing,

Shall the true Messiah see.

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Blest Redemption, long expected!
See the solemn pomp draw near.
All His saints, by man rejected,
Rise to meet Him in the air;
Alleluia!

See the Son of Man appear!

Yea, Amen, let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own.
O, come quickly,

Alleluia! come, Lord, come!

The great day of His wrath is come, and
who shall be able to stand?

THAT

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HAT day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away!

What power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?

When, shrivelling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll;
And louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead.

O, on that day, that awful day,

When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away!

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This same Jesus shall so come as ye have

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seen Him go into heaven.

HE Lord of Might, from Sinai's brow, Gave forth His voice of thunder; And Israel lay on earth below,

Outstretched in fear and wonder: Beneath His feet was pitchy night, And at His left hand and His right The rocks were rent asunder.

The Lord of Love, on Calvary,
A meek and suffering stranger,
Upraised to heaven His languid eye,
In nature's hour of danger:

For us He bore the weight of woe,
For us He gave His blood to flow,
And met His Father's anger.

The Lord of Love, the Lord of Might,
The King of all created,

Shall back return to claim His right,
On clouds of glory seated;

With trumpet-sound, and angel song,
With alleluias loud and long,

O'er death and hell defeated.

P.M.