Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: My thoughts on awful subjects roll
Topic: Funeral Hymns
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 218
Page Number: 193, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMy thoughts on awful subjects roll,
Damnation and the dead;
What horrors seize the guilty soul
Upon the dying bed.
Lingering about these mortal shores,
She makes a long delay;
Till, like a flood, with rapid force,
Death sweeps the wretch away.
Then swift and dreadful she descends,
Down to the fiery coast;
Among abominable fiends,
Herself a frightful ghost.
There hopeless crowds of sinners lie,
And darkness makes their chains,
Tortur'd with keen despair, they cry,
Yet wait for fiercer pains.
Not al their anguish, nor their pain,
For their old guilt atones;
Nor the compassion of a God
Shall hearken to their groans.
Amazing grace that kept my breath,
Nor bid my soul remove,
Till I had learn'd my Saviour's death,
And well insur'd his love.