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Text:Lo, he comes with clouds descending
Author:Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Author:John Cennick, 1718-1755
Tune:HELMSLEY
Transcriber:Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799

31. Lo, he comes with clouds descending

1 Lo, he comes with clouds descending,
once for favoured sinners slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia!
God appears on earth to reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at naught and sold him,
pierced and nailed him to the Tree,
deeply wailing,
shall the true Messiah see.

3 Those dear tokens of his passion
still his dazzling body bears,
cause of endless exultation
to his ransomed worshippers:
with what rapture
gaze we on those glorious scars!

4 Yea, Amen, let all adore thee,
high on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take the power and glory,
claim the kingdom for thine own:
Alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.

Text Information
First Line: Lo, he comes with clouds descending
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
Author: John Cennick, 1718-1755
Meter: 87 87 47
Language: English
Publication Date: 2000
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Advent; Advent I: Year A; Advent I: Year B
Tune Information
Name: HELMSLEY
Transcriber: Thomas Olivers, 1725-1799
Meter: 87 87 47
Key: G Major
Source: John Wesley's Select Hymns and Tunes Annext, 1765



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