495    8.7.4.     J. Swain
Coming of Christ to Judgment. Matt. 25. 31-46

1 Lo! he comes, arrayed in vengeance,
  Riding down the heavenly road;
  Floods of fury roll before him;
  Who can meet an angry God?
  Tremble, sinners;
  Who can stand before his rod?

2 Lo! he comes in glory shining;
  Saints, arise and meet your King!
  “Glorious Captain of Salvation,
  Welcome, welcome,” hear them sing!
  Shouts of triumph
  Make the heavens with echoes ring.

3 Now, despisers, look and wonder!
  Hear the dreadful sound, “Depart!”
  Rattling like a peal of thunder,
  Through each guilty rebel’s heart!
  Lost for ever!
  Hope and sinners here must part.

4 [Still they hear the dreadful sentence;
  Hell resounds the dreadful roar;
  While their heart-strings rend with anguish,
  Trembling on the burning shore;
  Justice seals it;
  Down they sink to rise no more.

5 How they shrink with horror, viewing
  Hell’s deep caverns opening wide;
  Guilty thoughts, like ghosts, pursuing,
  Plunge them down the rolling tide!
  Now consider,
  Ye who scorn the Lamb that died.]

6 Hark! ten thousand harps resounding!
  Formed in bright and grand array;
  See the glorious armies rising,
  While their Captain leads the way;
  Heaven before them,
  Opens an eternal day.