Author: Anonymous Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 142 hymnals Lyrics: 1 See th’eternal Judge descending,
Seated on His Father’s throne,
Now poor sinner, Christ shall show thee
He is the eternal Son;
Trumpets call thee, trumpets call thee,
Come to hear thy awful doom.
2 Hear the sinner thus lamenting
At the thoughts of future pain;
Cries and tears he now is venting,
But he cries and weeps in vain,
Greatly mourning, greatly mourning,
That he ne’er was born again.
3 Yonder stands the lovely Savior,
With the marks of dying love;
Oh! that I had sought His favor,
When I felt His Spirit move!
Doomed justly, doomed justly.
For I have against Him strove.
4 All His warnings I have slighted,
While He daily sought my soul;
If some vows to Him I plighted,
Yet for sin I broke the whole;
Golden moments, golden moments,
How neglected did they roll.
5 Yonder stand my godly neighbors,
Who were once despised by me,
They are clad in dazzling splendor,
Waiting my sad fate to see;
Farewell, neighbors, farewell, neighbors;
Dismal gulf, I’m bound for thee.
6 Hail ye ghosts that dwell in darkness,
Groveling, rattling, of your chains,
Christ has now denounced our sentence,
We must dwell in endless pains;
Down I’m rolling, down I’m rolling,
Never to return again.
7 Now experience plainly shows me,
Hell is not a fabled thing;
Lo, I see my friends in glory,
Round the throne they ever sing;
I’m tormented, I’m tormented.
By an everlasting sting. Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: A Collection of Spiritual Songs and Hymns by Richard Allen (Philadelphia: John Ormrod, 1801)
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