Text: | And Will the Judge Descend |
Author: | Phillip Doddridge |
Tune: | SOUTHWELL |
1 And will the Judge descend,
And must the dead arise
And not a single soul escape
His all-discerning eyes?
2 And from His righteous lips
Shall this dread sentence sound
And thro' the num'rous guilty throng
Spread black despair around:
3 "Depart from Me, accursed,
To everlasting flame,
For rebel angels first prepared,
Where mercy never came?"
4 How will my heart endure
The terrors of that Day
When earth and heav'n before His face,
Astonished, shrink away?
5 But ere that trumpet shakes
The mansions of the dead,
Hark from the Gospel's cheering sound
What joyful tidings spread:
6 Ye sinners, seek His grace
Whose wrath ye cannot bear;
Fly to the shelter of His cross,
And find salvation there.
Amen.
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First Line: | And will the Judge descend |
Title: | And Will the Judge Descend |
Author: | Phillip Doddridge (1755, ab.) |
Meter: | S.M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1941 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Last Things: Judgment |
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Name: | SOUTHWELL |
Meter: | S.M. |
Key: | e minor |
Source: | "Psalter," William Daman, 1579 |