Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: And will the Judge descend
Topic: Judgment
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 157
Page Number: 157, 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?
And from his righteous lips
Shall this dread sentence sound;
And thro' the numerous guilty throng,
Spread black despair around?
"Depart from me, accurs'd,
"To everlasting flame,
"For rebel angels first prepar'd,
"Where mercy never came."
How will my heart endure
The terrors of that day;
When earth and heaven before his face,
Astonish'd shrink away?
But ere that trumpet shakes
The mansions of th dead;
Hark, from the gospel's cheering sound,
What joyful tidings spread!
Ye sinners, seek his grace,
Whose wrath ye cannot bear;
Fly to the shelter of his cross,
And find salvation there.
So shall that curse remove,
By which the Saviour bled;
And the last awful day shall pour
His blessings on your head.