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Eternity! tremendous Word

Hymnal: Psalmodia Germanica #205 (1732) Publication Date: 1732 Lyrics: I. Eternity! tremendous Word, Home-striking Point, Heart-piercing Sword, Beginning without Ending! Eternity! without a Shore, Where ever-fiery Billows roar, What is thy Sight portending? One Glimpse of thine unfathom'd Deep Wou'd rouse a Wretch from sinful Sleep. II. What Pain was ever thought so great, That must not with the Time abate, And lose its utmost Rigour? Eternity does never cease, Admits no Manner of Release, But keeps its constant Vigour: Or, as our SAVIOUR'S Words express, Eternity has not Redress. III. Eternity! how long, how long, Thou seizest Senses, Heart and Tongue With pannick Fear and Terrour! When I revolve thy dreadful chains In that Abyss of endless Pains, I'm overwhelm'd with Horrour. What's in this Life of Misery So frightful as Eternity? IV. Shou'd Hell endure as many Years, As many Men this World of Tears Has seen from the Creation. As many Stars adorn the sky, As many Leaves the Woods supply, You'd hope for its Cessation. This Sum of Ages wou'd but be One Moment to Eterity. V. But having spent in endless Fears So many Thousand Thousand Years, Thy Scene is still beginning; When thou hast suffer'd all these Times The just Reward of wilful Crimes, Thy Thread ne'er ceases spinning. Th'eternal Now, who can unfold? 'Tis ever new, but never old. VI. O Lord, how is thy Sentence just In leaving Man, that Rebel-Dust, To his desevr'd Damnation! Short wilful Sins committed here With long Remorse are punish'd there. O Woe beyond Relation! Weigh this, thou harden'd Heart and Face Thy Time is short, Death comes apace. VII. Hast thou yet Sense? avoid the Snare; Thy Pleasures fleeting Moments are, That dye as fast as tasted; These, at the Hazard of thy Soul, Dost thou pursue without controul, And seest thy Minutes wasted? Thou senseless Wretch, thou matchless Fool, Thou laugh'st and art the Devil's Tool. VIII. As long as God eternal reigns, And his Almighty Sway retains, Hell-Torment will be lasting; They shall be plagu'd with Cold and Heat, Thirst, Hunger; Fire shallb e their Meat, Their Worm is never wasting; And this unequall'd Misery Won't end till God shall cease to be. IX. Awake and rise from sinful Sleep: Bethink thy self, thou straying Sheep: Return by true Repentance: Arise, thy wicked Ways amend; The Glass of Life runs to its End; Then shiver at thy Sentence; Perhaps within few Minutes Breath Thou'rt snatch'd away by sudden Death. X. Let neither worldly Gain nor Lust, Ambition, Pride, nor golden Dust Longer enslave thy passions; Look how the carnal lethargy O'er-spreads the great Majority, Who sport with all Temptations; Above all Things keep in thy Sight The 'forenam'd long eternal Night. XI. Most Reprobate of all Mankind, Bereft of Sense, hard-hearted, blind, Why dost thou love the Creature? Shall that eternal Gulph of Hell, Where Millions of Tormentors dwell, Ne'er shock thy sinful Nature? Can then no Tongue, no Eloquence Persuade thee to a better Sense? XII. Eternity! tremendous Word, Home-striking Point, Heart-piercing Sword, Beginning without Ending! Eternity without a Shore! Where ever fiery Billows roar, What is thy Sight portending? Lord JESU, when it pleases Thee, Bring me to blest Eternity. Topics: Hell and Eternal Torment Languages: English Tune Title: [Eternity! tremendous Word]

Eternity, delightful Sound!

Author: J. C. Jacobi; Caspar Heunisch Hymnal: Psalmodia Germanica #209 (1732) Publication Date: 1732 Lyrics: I. Eternity, delightful Sound! Where real Joys are to be found, And Scenes of endless Glory! O Life! where Pleasures ever roll, Thy Foretaste entertains my Soul With Bliss not transitory. Come All, who long for Heav'n on Earth, You'll find it in the Second Birth. II. The Glories of this present World By Time and Tide are toss'd and hurl'd Down to their full Destructions. Look up, my soul, th'eternal Hills, Where Pleasures glide on Chrystal Rills With ever now Productions; For, as the blest Apostles say, That Bliss admits of no Decay. III. Eternity! thy endless Length Inspires my soul with Christian Strength To bear these short Afflictions, Consid'ring thine eternal Bliss, I slight this World's Calamities And constant Contradictions; Whilst there I fix my longing Soul, Where blissful years for ever roll. IV. If you wou'd balance all the Pain And Torments of the Martyrs slain, E'en from the Fall of ADAM, With that surpassing glorious Prize Reserv'd for Saints to fathom, They wou'd be found too light and frail To move, much less to turn the Scale. V. Reflect upon the dreadful Coasts Of Hell, and all the frightful Ghosts Tormenting one another! Where num'rous Crouds of Sinners lye: Tortur'd with keen Despair they try Their Consciences to smother. O! what surprizing Grace is this, Which frees us from that dark Abyss! VI. In Heav'n our happy Eyes and Ears Shall still enjoy, for endless Years, Transcending Scenes of Pleasure; There all the Saints of God rejoice; They love and sing with Heart and Voice The Praise of God, their Treasure: There CHRIST reveals a greater Store Of Bliss, than they conceiv'd before. VII. How do I long and faint to see The Courts of blest Eternity In all their glorious Beauty! I'd part with all the Joys of Sense, Take Wings of Faith and fly from hence To the Reward of Duty. If Thought alone gives such Delight, What must th' Enjoyment of thy Sight! VIII. Away with all the Dreams of Time: Away what Worldlings call sublime: Away with sinful Pleasure: Away with all the golden Dust: What Thieves may steal, or Time can rust; I long for greater Treasure; Nothing created can suffice A soul, made for eternal Joys. IX. Eternity! delightful Sound! Where real Joys are to be found And Scenes of endless Glory! O Life, where Pleasures ever roll! Thy Foretaste entertains my Soul With Bliss not transitory. O JESU, fix this Sense in me, Till thou reveal'st Eternity. Topics: Heaven and the Heavenly Jerusalem Languages: English

Eternal Power whose high abode

Hymnal: Urania #172 (1761) Publication Date: 1761 Lyrics: 1 Eternal Power whose high abode Becomes the grandeur of a God, Infinite lengths beyond the bounds, where stars revolve their little rounds. 2 Thee while the first archangel sings, He hides his face behind his wings, And ranks of shining thrones around, Fall worshiping and spread the ground. 3 Lord what shall earth and ashes do, We would adore our maker too. From sin and dust to thee we cry, The great, the holy, and the high. 4 Earth from afar has heard thy fame, And worms have learnt to lisp thy name, but o the glories of thy mind, Leave all our soaring thoughts behind. 5 God is in heaven and men below. Be short our tunes our words be few: A sacred reverence checks our songs And praise sits silent on our tongues. Languages: English Tune Title: PALMI'S

Eternal Spirit, we confess

Hymnal: The Psalms of David #II.CXXXIII (1766) Publication Date: 1766 Lyrics: 1 Eternal Spirit, we confess, And sing the Wonders of thy Grace; Thy Pow'r conveys our Blessings down From God the Father and the Son. 2 Enlighten'd by thine heav'nly Ray, Our Shades and Darkness turn to Day; Thine inward Teachings make us know Our Danger, and our Refuge too. 3 Thy Pow'r and Glory work within, And break the Chains of reigning Sin; Do our imperious Lusts subdue, And form our wretched Hearts anew. 4 The troubled Conscience knows thy Voice, Thy chearing Words awake our Joys; Thy Words allay the stormy Wind, And calm the Surges of the Mind. Topics: New Creation; Spirit His Offices Languages: English

Eternal Sov'reign of the Sky

Hymnal: The Psalms of David #II.CXLIX (1766) Publication Date: 1766 Lyrics: 1 Eternal Sov'reign of the Sky, And Lord of all below; We Mortals, to thy Majesty Our first Obedience owe. 2 Our Souls adore thy Throne supreme, And bless thy Providence, For Magistrates of meaner Name, Our Glory and Defence. [3 The Crowns of British rinces shine With Rays above the rest, Where Laws and Liberties combine To make the Nation blest.] 4 Kingdoms on firm Foundations stand, While Virtue finds Reward; And Sinners perish from the Land, By Justice and the Sword. 5 Let Caesar's Due be ever paid To Caesar and his Throne, But Consciences and Souls were made To be the Lord's alone. Topics: Government from God; Honor to Magistrates Languages: English

Eternal Father, how divine

Author: Joseph Stennett Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs #d27 (1766) Publication Date: 1766

Eternal Excellence!

Hymnal: Christian Hymns, Poems, and Spiritual Songs #I.LXVII (1776) Publication Date: 1776 Lyrics: 1 Eternal Excellence! Thy Worms would fain declare, In the divinest Sense How thou art heav'nly fair: O Prince, Messiah, thou art seen The fairest of the sons of Men. 2 Jesus, thy Beauties shine Bright, infinitely bright; Both Human and Divine, In thee, O Lamb, unite! Whate'er in Heav'n or Earth we see, As beautiful, are Types of thee. 3 The Son, the Moon, the Stars, With all the Thrones above, Thine Excellence declares, Thy Beauty, Pow'r, and Love: All Worlds before thy Throne we see, A Sea of Glass reflecting thee. 4 Man in his first Estate, Most wonderfully form'd, With Beauty's Pow'rs replete, With Holiness adorn'd, From ev'ry Spot and Blemish free, Was but a Figure, Lord, of thee. 5 As Blood of Goats, and Lambs, Is to thy Blood divine, Or, as their Altar-Flames, Dear Jesus are to thine; So Adam's Purity appears, To thee no more Proportion bears. 6 Lo! here Self-Int'rest fails, Man's Haughtiness sinks low; Thy Beauty, Lord, prevails; We at thy Footstool bow: Thou know'st our Heart, we need no more, Our Heav'n's to worship, love, adore. Scripture: Romans 1:20 Languages: English

Eternal Power, whose high abode

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymn Tunes from the most modern and approved authors #XXXIX (1783) Publication Date: 1783 Lyrics: 1 Eternal pow'r whose high abode Becomes the grandeur of a God Infinite lengths beyond the bounds Where stars revolve their little rounds. 2 Thee while the first archangel sings He hides his face behind his wings And ranks of shining thrones around Fall worshiping and spread the ground. 3 Lord what shall earth and ashes do? We would adore our Maker too; From sin and dust to thee we cry The great, the holy and the high! 4 Earth from afar has heard thy fame, And worms have learnt to lisp thy name; But O the glories of thy mind Leave all our soaring thoughts behind. 5 God is in heav'n and men below Be short our tunes, our words be few! A sacred rev'rence checks our songs And praise sits silent on our tongues. Languages: English

Eternal God, Almighty Cause

Hymnal: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Publick Worship #III (1789) Publication Date: 1789 Lyrics: 1 Eternal God, Almighty Cause Of earth, and seas, and worlds unknown! All things are subject to thy laws, All things depend on thee alone. 2 Thy glorious being singly stands, Of all within itself possest; Controul'd by none are thy commands, Thou from thyself alone art blest. 3 To thee alone ourselves we owe, Let heav'n and earth due homage pay; All other Gods we disavow, Deny their claims, renounce their sway. 4 Spread thy great name thro' every land, Each idol deity dethrone, Let earth with all her tongues confess That thou the Lord art God alone Topics: The divine Perfections To the one only true God Languages: English

Eternal King, enthron'd above

Hymnal: The Psalms of David #H56 (1789) Publication Date: 1789 Lyrics: 1 Eternal King, enthron'd above, Look down in faithfulness and love, Prepare our hearts to seek thy face, And grant us thy reviving grace. 2 Long have we heard the joyful call, But yet our faith and love are small; Our hearts are torn with worldly cares, And all our paths are fill'd with snares. 3 Unworthy to approach thy throne, Our trust is fix'd on Christ alone; In him thy cov'nant stands secure, And will from age to age endure. 4 O let us hear thy pard'ning voice, And bid our mourning hearts rejoice; Revive our souls, our faith renew, Prepare for duties now in view. 5 Make all our spices flow abroad, A grateful incense to our God; Let hope and love and joy appear, And ev'ry grace be active here. Topics: Lord's Supper Preparation Languages: English