Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: How great how terrible that God
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Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Hymn Number: 613
Page Number: 321, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHOW great, how terrible that God,
Who shakes creation with his nod!
He frowns-earth, sea, all nature's frame,
Sink in one universal flame.
Where now, O where shall sinner seek
For shelter in the general wreck?
Shall falling rocks be o'er them thrown,
See rocks, like snow, dissolving down.
In vain for mercy now they cry,
In lakes of liquid fire they lie;
There on the flaming billows tost,
Forever, O forever lost!
But saints, undaunted and serene,
Your eyes shall view the dreadful scene,
Your Saviour lives, the worlds expire-
And earth and skies dissolve in fire.
Jesus, the helpless creature's friend,
To thee our lives we would commend;
Thou canst preserve our feeble soul,
When lightnings flash from pole to pole.