History & Politics

Hymns of Intercession for All Mankind, 39

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Hymns of Intercession for All Mankind (1758) · Osborn ed., vol. 6 (1870)

History & Politics

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favour'd sinners slain!
Thousand, thousand saints attending.
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah,
God appears on earth to reign!
Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty,
Those who set at nought and sold Him,
Pierced, and nail'd Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing
Shall the true Messiah see.
The dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears.
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransom'd worshippers;
With what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee
High on Thine eternal throne!
Saviour, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own,
Jah, Jehovah,
Everlasting God, come down.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Hymns of Intercession for All Mankind, 39.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/1390/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Hymns of Intercession for All Mankind, 39.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/1390/.

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