Author: Leech Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 24 hymnals Topics: Times and Seasons Sickness; General sickness First Line: Death, with his dread commission seal'd Lyrics: 1 Death, with his dread commission seal'd,
Now hastens to his arms:
In awful state he takes the field,
And sounds his dire alarms.
2 Attendant plagues around him stand,
And wait his dread command;
And pains, and dying groans obey
The signal of his hand.
3 With cruel force, he scatters round
His shafts of deadly power;
While the grave waits its disten'd prey,
Impatient to devour.
4 Look up, ye heirs of endless joy,
Nor let your fears prevail;
Eternal life is our reward,
When life on earth shall fail.
5 What tho' his darts, promiscous hurl'd,
Deal fatal plagues around;
And heaps of putrid carcases
O'erload the cumber'd ground;
6 The arrows, that shall wound your flesh,
Were giv'n him from above,
Dipt in the great redeemer's blood,
And feather'd all with love.
7 These, with a gentle hand, he throws,
And saints lie gasping too;
But heavenly strength supports their souls,
And bears them conquerors thro'.
8 Joyful they stretch their wings abroad,
And all in triumph rise,
To the fair palace of their God,
And mansions in the skies.
For a time of general Sickness
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