By A Collection of Hymns

      7s & 6s.
      1 JESUS, faithful to his word,
      Shall with a shout descend;
      All heaven's host their glorious Lord
      Shall pompously attend:
      Christ shall come with dreadful noise,
      Lightnings swift, and thunders loud;
      With the great archangel's voice,
      And with the trump of God.

      2 First the dead in Christ shall rise;
      Then we that yet remain
      Shall be caught up to the skies,
      And see our Lord again:
      We shall meet him in the air,
      All rapt up to heaven shall be,
      Find, and love, and praise him there,
      To all eternity.

      3 Who can tell the happiness
      This glorious hope affords?
      Joy unuttered we possess
      In these reviving words;
      Happy while on earth we breathe,
      Mightier bliss ordained to know,
      Trampling down sin, hell, and death,
      To the third heaven we go.