7 Under sorrows and reproaches,
May this thought your courage raise,
Swiftly God s great day approaches,
Sighs shall then be changed to praise.
We shall triumph when the world is in a blaze.
78.
The Day of the Lord.[1]
1 GOD with one piercing glance looks through
Creation s wide-extended frame;
The past and future in his view,
And days and ages are the same.
2 Sinners who dare provoke his face,
Who on his patience long presume,
And trifle out his day of grace,
Will find he has a day of doom,
3 As pangs the labouring woman feels,
Or as the thief in midnight sleep,
So comes that day for which the wheels
Of time their ceaseless motion keep !
4 Hark ! from the sky the trump proclaims
Jesus the Judge approaching nigh !
See the creation wrapt in flames,
First kindled by his vengeful eye !
5 When thus the mountains melt like wax ;
When earth and air and sea shall burn ;
When all the frame of nature breaks ;
Poor sinner, whither wilt thou turn?
6 The puny works which feeble men
Now boast or covet or admire ;
Their pomp and arts and treasures then
Shall perish in one common fire.
7 Lord, fix our hearts and hopes above,
Since all below to ruin tends ;
Here may we trust, obey, and love,
And there be found amongst thy friends.
- ↑ Book iii, Hymn 4.
