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Victory over Death

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 70 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Death First Line: When death appears before my sight Lyrics: 1 When death appears before my sight, In all his dire array; Unequal to the dreadful fight, My courage dies away. 2 How shall I meet this potent foe Whose frown my soul alarms? Dark horror sits upon his brow; And vict'ry waits his arms. 3 But see my glorious Leader nigh! Jesus, my Savior, lives: Before him death's pale terrors fly, And my faint heart revives. 4 O may I meet the final hour With fortitude divine! Sustain'd by his almighty pow'r, The conquest must be mine. 5 Lord! I commit my soul to thee: Accept the sacred trust; Receive this nobler part of me, And watch my sleeping dust. 6 O let me join angelic lays, And, with the blissful throng, Resound salvation, pow'r, and praise, In everlasting song!

Christ's Presence makes Death easy

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 429 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Death First Line: Why should we start and fear to die? Lyrics: 1 Why should we start or fear to die? What timorous worms we mortals are! Death is the gate of endless joy, And yet we dread to enter there. 2 The pains, the groans, and dying strife, Fright our approaching souls away: Still we shrink back again to life, Fond of our prison and our clay. 3 O, if my Lord would come and meet, My soul should stretch her wings in haste, Fly fearless through death's iron gate, Nor feel the terrors as she past. 4 Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.

Who shall against the Lord prevail?

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Judgment and Eternity Lyrics: 1 Who shall against the Lord prevail? Or who presume to say, "That righteous law, which God proclaims, I dare to disobey?" 2 Ten thousand actions ev'ry where The impious language speak: Yet pow'r omnipotent stands by, Nor do its thunders break. 3 But O! the dreadful day draws near, When God's avenging hand Shall shew, if feeble mortals' breath, Or God's own word shall stand. 4 My soul, with rev'rence prostrate fall, Before the voice divine; And all thine int'rest and thy pow'rs To his command resign. 5 Let the vain of sons of Belial boast, Their tongues and thoughts are free: My noblest liberty I own, When subject most to thee.

Not to the terrors of the Lord

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 186 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Judgment and Eternity Lyrics: 1 Not to the terrors of the Lord, The tempest, fire, and smoke; Not to the thunder of that word, Which God on Sinai spoke: 2 But we are come to Zion's hill, The city of our God, Where milder words declare his will, And spread his love abroad. 3 Behold th'innumerable host Of angels, cloth'd in light! Behold the spirits of the just, Whose faith is turn'd to sight! 4 Behold the bless'd assembly there, Whose names are writ in heaven! And God, the Judge of all, declare Their numerous sins forgiven, 5 In such society as this My weary soul would rest! The man that dwells where Jesus is, Must be for ever bless'd.

Ye golden lamps of heav'n! farewell

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 157 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Judgment and Eternity Lyrics: 1 Ye golden lamps of heav'n! farewell, With all your feeble light, Farewell, thou ever-changing moon Pale empress of the night! 2 And thou, refulgent orb of day, In brighter flames array'd! My soul, which spring beyond thy sphere, No more demands thine aid. 3 Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heav'nly courts, Where I shall reign with God. 4 The Father of eternal light Shall there his beams display; Nor shall one moment's darkness mix With that unvaried day. 5 No more the drops of piercing grief Shall swell into mine eyes; Nor the meridian sun decline Amidst those brighter skies. 6 There all the millions of his saints Shall in one song unite, And each the bliss of all shall share With infinite delight.

Heaven alone can satisfy the Soul

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Judgment and Eternity First Line: From this world's joys and senseless mirth Lyrics: 1 From this world's joys and senseless mirth, O come, my soul! in haste retire; Assume the grandeur of thy birth, And to thy native heav'n aspire. 2 'Tis heav'n alone can make thee bless'd, Can ev'ry wish and want supply; Thy joy, thy crown, thy endless rest, Are all above the lofty sky. 3 Eternal mansions! bright array! O blest exchange! transporting thought! Free from th'approaches of decay, Or the least shadow of a spot. 4 There shall mortality no more Its wide extended empire boast; Forgotten all its dreadful pow'r, In life's unbounded ocean lost. 5 There dwells the sovereign Lord of all, The God that all the worlds adore; With whom is bliss that cannot pall, And joys that last forever more.

Heav'n has confirm'd the great decree

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 76 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Judgment and Eternity Lyrics: 1 Heav'n has confirm'd the great decree That Adam's race must die: One gen'ral ruin sweeps them down, And low in dust they lie. 2 Ye living men, the tomb survey, Where you must quickly dwell. Hark how the awful summons sounds In ev'ry fun'ral knell! 3 Once you must die, and once for all; The solemn purport weigh; For know, that heav'n and hell are hung On that important day. 4 Those eyes, so long in darkness veil'd, Must wake the Judge to see; And ev'ry word, and ev'ry thought Must pass his scrutiny. 5 O may I in the Judge behold My Savior and my Friend, And far beyond the reach of death With all his saints ascend!

The Lord, the Judge, his churches warns

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 51 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Judgment and Eternity Lyrics: 1 The Lord, the Judge, his churches warns: Let hypocrites attend and fear, Who place their hope in rites and forms, But make not faith nor love their care. 2 They dare rehearse his awful name With lips of falsehood and deceit; A friend or brother they defame, And sooth and flatter those they hate. 3 They watch to do their neighbors wrong, Yet dare to seek their Maker's face; They take his cov'nant on their tongue, But break his laws, abuse his grace. 4 And, while his judgments long delay, They grow secure and sin the more; They think he sleeps, as well as they, And put far off the evil hour. 5 O dreadful hour, when God draws near, And sets their crimes before their eyes! Anguish their guilty souls shall tear, And no deliv'rer dare to rise.

Man fading and reviving

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 171 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Death First Line: The morning flow'rs display their sweets Lyrics: 1 The morning flow'rs display their sweets, And gay their silken leaves unfold, As careless of the noon-day heats And fearless of the ev'ning cold. 2 Nipt by the wind's untimely blast, Parch'd by the sun's directer ray, The momentary glories waste, The short-liv'd beauties die away. 3 So blooms the human face divine, When youth its pride and beauty shows; Fairer than spring the colors shine And sweeter than the virgin rose. 4 Or worn by slowly rolling years, Or broke by sickness in a day, The fading glory disappears, The short-liv'd beauties die away. 5 Yet these, new-rising from the tomb, With lustre brighter far shall shine; Revive with ever-during bloom, Safe from diseases and decline. 6 Let sickness blast and death devour, If heav'n must recompense our pains; Perish the grass, and fade the flow'r, If firm the word of God remains.

Oh, where shall rest be found

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 652 hymnals Topics: Consummation of Things Death Lyrics: 1 Oh, where shall rest be found, Rest for the weary soul? ’Twere vain the ocean’s depths to sound, Or pierce to either pole. 2 The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh; ’Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die. 3 Beyond this vale of tears, There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years-- And all that life is love. 4 There is a death whose pang Outlasts the fleeting breath: Oh! what eternal horrors hang Around the second death! 5 Lord God of truth and grace! Teach us that death to shun:-- Lest we be banished from thy face, And evermore undone. 6 Here would we end our quest-- Alone are found in thee The life of perfect love--the rest Of immortality.