Scripture Verse

Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world…Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. Matthew 25:34, 41

Introduction

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Thomas Haweis (1734–1820)

Words: Phi­lip Dodd­ridge (1702–1751). Pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly in Hymns Found­ed on Va­ri­ous Texts in the Ho­ly Scrip­tures, by Job Or­ton (Shrop­shire, Eng­land: Jo­shua Ed­dowes & John Cot­ton, 1755), num­ber 187: The fi­nal sen­tence, and hap­pi­ness of the right­eous.

Music: Rich­mond (Ha­weis) Tho­mas Ha­weis, Car­mi­na Chris­to 1792 (🔊 pdf nwc).

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Philip Doddridge (1702–1751)

Lyrics

Attend, mine ear, my heart re­joice;
While Je­sus from His throne,
Begirt with all th’an­gel­ic hosts,
Makes His last sen­tence known.

When sin­ners curs­èd from His face
To rag­ing flames are driv’n,
His voice, with me­lo­dy divine,
Thus calls His saints to Heav’n.

“Blest of My Fa­ther, all draw near,
Receive the large re­ward;
And rise with rap­tures to pos­sess
The king­dom Love pre­pared.

“Ere earth’s foun­da­tions first were laid,
This so­ver­eign pur­pose wrought,
And reared those pa­lac­es di­vine,
To which you now are brought.

There shall you reign un­num­bered years,
Protected by My pow­er,
While sin and hell, and pains and cares
Shall vex your souls no more.

Come, dear ma­jes­tic Sav­ior, come,
This ju­bi­lee pro­claim,
And teach us ac­cents fit to praise
So great, so dear a name.