6 At once let nature's ample round
To God the vast thanksgiving raise :
His high perfection knows no bound,
But fills th' immensity of space.
Christ our Righteousness.
1 JESUS, thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
'Midst flaming worlds, in these array'd,
With joy shall I lift up my head.
2 When from the dust of death I rise,
To claim my mansion in the skies;
Ev'n then shall this be all my plea,
"Jesus hath liv'd, hath dy'd for me.”
3 Bold shall I stand in that great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully through thee absolv'd I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.
4 Thus Abraham, the friend of God,
Thus all the armies bought with blood,
Saviour of sinners thee proclaim;
Sinners, of whom the chief I am.
5 This spotless robe the same appears,
When ruin'd nature sinks in years;
No age can change it's glorious hue,
The robe of Christ is ever new.
And when the dead shall hear thy voice,
Thy banish'd children shall rejoice;
Their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, the Lord our righteousness!
E comes! he comes! the Judge severe;
The seventh trumpet speaks him near!
The lightnings flash, the thunders roll,
He's welcome to the faithful soul.
2 From heaven angelic voices sound,
See the almighty Jesus crown'd!
Girt with omnipotence and grace,
And glory decks the Saviour's face.
3 Descending from his azure throne,
He claims the kingdoms for his own;
The kingdoms all obey his word,
And hail him their triumphant Lord.
4 Shout, all ye people of the sky,
And all ye saints of God most high;
Jesus, who now his right obtains,
For ever and for ever reigns.
The last Judgment. Rev. 1. 7. xxii. 17. 20, 21.
O! He comes, with clouds descending, Once for favour'd sinners slain ! Thousand thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of his train :
Jesus comes, and comes to reign.
2 Every eye shall now behold him,
Rob'd in dreadful majesty!
Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierc'd and nail'd him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see!
3 Every island, sea and mountain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away;
All who hate him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to Judgment!
Come to Judgment! come away.
4 Now redemption, long expected,
See, in solemn pomp appear!
All his saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet him in the air.
Hallelujah!
See the day of God appear!
5 [Answer thine own bride and Spirit,
Hasten, Lord, the general doom!
The new heav'n and earth t'inherit,
Take thy pining exiles home:
All creation
Travails, groans, and bids thee come.]
6 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,
Hallelujah! come, Lord, come !
1 LO! He cometh! countless trumpets
Blow to raise the sleeping dead;
'Midst ten thousand saints and angels,
See, their great exalted head!
Welcome, welcome Son of God,
2 Now his merit, by the harpers
Through th' eternal deep resounds;
Now resplendent shine his nail-prints,
Every eye shall see his wounds;
They who pierc'd him
Shall, at his appearance, wail.
3 Full of joyful expectation,
Saints, behold the Judge appear!
Truth and justice go before him,
Now the blissful sentence hear:
Hallelujah,
Welcome, welcome Judge divine.
4 " Come, ye blessed of my Father,
"Enter into life and joy;
"Banish all your fears and sorrows,
"Endless praise be your employ."
Hallelujah,
Welcome, welcome to the skies.
5 Now, at once, they rise to glory,
Jesus brings them to the King;
There, with all the hosts of heaven,
They eternal anthems sing:
Hallelujah,
Boundless glory to the Lamb.
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria; or, Britain's religious Privileges. John iv. 5, 10.
T Jacob's well a stranger sought His drooping frame to cheer: Samaria's daughter little thought That Jacob's God was near.
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