Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: And will the Judge descend
Topic: The Gospel/Invitations
Writer: <no first name given> Doddridge
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 300
Page Number: 186, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAnd will the Judge descend?
And must the dead arise?
And not a single soul escape
His all-discerning eyes?
How will my heart endure
The terrors of that day,
When earth and heaven before his face,
Astonished, shrink away?
But ere the trumpet shakes
That mansions of the dead;
Hark! from the Gospel's cheering sound
What joyful tidings spread.
Ye sinners! seek his grace,
Whose wrath ye can not bear;
Flee to the shelter of his cross.
And find salvation there.
Come! take his offers now
From every sin depart,
Perform thy oft-repeated vow,
And render him thy heart.
Repent! return! receive
The grace through Jesus given;
Sure, if with God on earth we live,
We live with God in heaven.