Praise with trumpets, pierce the skies;
Praise with harps and psalteries;
Praise with timbrels, organs, flutes ;
Praise with viols and with lutes ;
Praise with silver cymbals sing;
Praise on those which loudly ring.
Angels, all of human birth,
Praise the Lord of heaven and earth.
HARK! the glad sound! the Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long!
heart prepare a throne,
And every voice a song.
He comes, the prisoners to release,
In Satan's bondage held;
The gates of brass before Him burst,
The iron fetters yield.
He comes, the broken heart to bind,
The bleeding soul to cure;
And with the riches of his grace
To bless the humble poor.
Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim;
And heaven's eternal arches ring
With thy beloved Name.
WHEN Christ came down on earth of old,
He took our nature poor and low;
He wore no form of angel mould,
But shared our weakness and our woe.
But when He cometh back once more,
Then shall be set the great white throne;
And earth and heaven shall flee before
The face of Him that sits thereon.
O Son of God! in glory crown'd,
The Judge ordain'd of quick and dead;
O Son of Man! so pitying found
For all the tears thy people shed;
Be with us in that awful hour,
And by thy crown, and by thy grave,
By all thy love and all thy power,
In that great Day of Judgment save.
THOU, whose Almighty word
Chaos and darkness heard,
And took their flight,
Hear us, we humbly pray;
And where the Gospel-day
Sheds not its glorious ray
"Let there be light!"
Thou, who didst come to bring,
On thy redeeming wing,
Healing and light;
Health to the sick in mind,
Sight to the inly blind,
Oh, now to all mankind
"Let there be light!"
Spirit of truth and love,
Life-giving, holy Dove,
Speed forth thy flight!
Move on the waters' face,
Bearing the lamp of grace,
And in earth's darkest place
"Let there be light!"
Lo! He comes! with clouds descending, Once for favour'd sinners slain; Thousand thousand saints attending Swell the triumph of his train : Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Amen.
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.
Every island, sea, and mountain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away;
All who hate Him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day;
Come to judgment !
Come to judgment! come away!
Now redemption, long expected,
See! in solemn pomp appear!
All his saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet Him in the air!
Hallelujah!
See the day of God appear!
Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on thine eternal throne!
Saviour! take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdom for thine own!
Oh, come quickly!
Hallelujah! Come, Lord, come !
O SAVIOUR, is thy promise fled,
Nor longer might thy grace endure
To heal the sick, and raise the dead,
And preach thy Gospel to the poor?
Come, JESUS, come! return again;
With brighter beam thy servants bless,
Who long to feel thy perfect reign,
And share thy kingdom's happiness.
Come, JESUS, come; and, as of yore,
The prophet went to clear thy way,
A harbinger thy feet before,
A dawning to thy brighter day;
So now may grace with heavenly shower
Our stony hearts for truth prepare ;
Sow in our souls the seed of power,
Then come and reap thy harvest there.
HOSANNA to the living Lord!
Hosanna to th' Incarnate Word!
To Christ, Creator, Saviour, King,
Let earth, let heaven Hosanna sing.
O Saviour! with protecting care
Return to this thy House of Prayer:
Assembled in thy sacred name,
Where we thy parting promise claim.
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