Wesley Corpus

A Collection of Hymns (1780)

AuthorCharles Wesley
Typehymn-collection
Year1780
Passage IDcw-hymns-1780-038
Words396
Sourcehttps://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/hymn.html
Christology Reign of God
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. ) 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,