A Collection of Hymns (1780)
| Author | Charles Wesley |
|---|---|
| Type | hymn-collection |
| Year | 1780 |
| Passage ID | cw-hymns-1780-038 |
| Words | 396 |
| Source | https://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/hymn.html |
4 Ye that have here received
The unction from above.
And in his Spirit lived,
Obedient to his love,
uo Describing Judgment.
Jesus shall claim you for his bride :
Rejoice with all the sanctified !
5 The everlasting doors
Shall soon the saints receive,
Above yon angel powers
In glorious joy to live ;
Far from a world of grief and sin,
With God eternally shut in.
6 Then let us wait to hear
The trumpet's welcome sound ;
To see our Lord appear,
Watching let us be found ;
When Jesus doth the heavens bow,
Be found -- as, Lord, thou find'st us now !
*HYMN 66. p.m.
1 O ! He comes with clouds descending,
-*-- A Once for favour'd sinners slain ;
Thousand, thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of his train :
Hallelujah ! God appears on earth to reign.
2 Every eye shall now behold him
Robed in dreadful majesty ;
Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierced and nail'd him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, shall the true Messiah see.
3 The dear tokens of his passion
Still his dazzling body bears ;
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransom'd worshippers : [scars !
With what rapture gaze we on those glorious
4 Yea, Amen ! let all adore thee,
High on thy eternal throne ;
Saviour, take the power and glory ;
Claim the kingdom for thine own !
Jah ! Jehovah ! everlasting God ! come down.
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5. Desci'ibing Heaven.
HYMN 67. 2-6's8f4-7's.
HOW weak the thoughts, and vain,
Of self-deluding men ;
Men, who, fix'd to earth alone,
Think their houses shall endure,
Fondly call their lands their own,
To their distant heirs secure.
2 How happy then are we,
Who build, O Lord, on thee !
What can our foundation shock ?
Though the shatter'd earth remove,
Stands our city on a rock,
On the rock of heavenly Love.
3 A house we call our own,
Which cannot be o'erthrovvn :
In the general ruin sure,
Storms and earthquakes it defies ;
Built immovably secure ;
Built eternal in the skies.
4 High on Immanuel's land
We see the fabric stand ;
From a tottering world remove
To our steadfast mansion there :
Our inheritance above
Cannot pass from heir to heir.
5 Those amaranthine bowers
(Unalienably ours)
Bloom, our infinite reward,