Hymns for the Year 1756, 14

Ye servants of God, Acknowledge Him near,
Who bought you with blood Shall quickly appear,
In love's latest season, Ye sinners awake,
For Jesus is risen The kingdoms to shake.

His justice or grace Ye shortly shall prove,
For these be the days Of vengeance — and love:
The great tribulation Even now is begun:
The hour of temptation. And rescue is one.

Redemption is come, Jehovah descends.
His haters to doom, And honour His friends.
The world He is waking From sinful repose;
In battles of shaking He fights with His foes.

Fire, vapour, and storm Accomplish His word.
And earthquakes perform The charge of their Lord:
The pride of the nations He terribly spurns.
Earth's steadfast foundations,. And cities o'erturns.

Outstretching His hand O'er mountains and seas,
He shakes the dry land. And watery abyss!
A marvellous motion Through nature is spread,
And peaceable ocean Starts out of his bed!

Like thunder confined In caverns, he roars,
And raised without wind Looks down on the shores;
Hangs horribly over The children of woe.
Expanded to cover Their cities below.

But Jesus's throne Immovable stands,
The elements own Almighty commands;
The ruin of nature Doth awfully bring
Her second Creator, Her absolute King.

Come Saviour array'd With glory and power,
The world Thou hast made, Destroy, and restore;
That all the new heaven And earth may proclaim,
"The kingdom is given To Jesus the Lamb."