Text:Lo, he comes with clouds descending
Author:Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Author:John Cennick (1718-1755)
Tune:HELMSLEY

41. Lo, he comes with clouds descending

1 Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
once for favoured sinners slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at naught and sold him,
pierced and nailed him to the Tree,
deeply wailing,
shall the true Messiah see.

3 Those dear tokens of his passion
still his dazzling body bears,
cause of endless exultation
to his ransomed worshippers:
with what rapture
gaze we on those glorious scars!

4 Yea, Amen, let all adore thee,
high on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory,
claim the kingdom for thine own:
Alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.

Text Information
First Line: Lo, he comes with clouds descending
Author: Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Author: John Cennick (1718-1755)
Meter: 87 87 47 extended
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Adoration; Advent; Advent Sunday: Year A (9 more...)
Notes: The fifth line of each verse is sung three times.
Tune Information
Name: HELMSLEY
Meter: 87 87 47 extended
Key: G Major
Source: Melody adapted from John Wesley's Select Hymns with Tunes Annext, 1765



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