The words
Stanza 1. God, with one piercing glance, looks throughCreation’s wide extended frame;The past and future in his view,And days and ages are the same.
Stanza 2. Sinners, who dare provoke his face,Who on his patience long presume,And trifle out his day of grace,Will find he has a day of doom.
Stanza 3. As pangs the lab’ring woman feels,Or as the thief, in midnight sleep;So comes that day, for which the wheelsOf time, their ceaseless motion keep!
Stanza 4. Hark! from the sky, the trump proclaimsJesus; the Judge approaching nigh!See, the creation wrapped in flames,First kindled by his vengeful eye!
Stanza 5. When thus the mountains melt like wax,When earth, and air, and sea, shall burn;When all the frame of nature breaks,Poor sinner, whither wilt thou turn?
Stanza 6. The puny works which feeble menNow boast, or covet, or admire;Their pomp, and arts, and treasures, thenShall perish in one common fire.
Stanza 7. LORD, fix our hearts and hopes above!Since all below to ruin tends;Here may we trust, obey, and love,And there be found amongst thy friends.
Olney Hymns (1779), Book 2, Hymn 78. John Newton. Public domain. CCEL transcription with modernized spelling. www.praylock.com/olney-hymns/2-78
