By A Collection of Hymns

      8s & 7s.
      1 RIGHTEOUS God! whose vengeful phials
      All our fears and thoughts exceed,
      Big with woes and fiery trials,
      Hanging, bursting o'er our head;
      While thou visitest the nations,
      Thy selected people spare;
      Arm our cautioned souls with patience,
      Fill our humbled hearts with prayer.

      2 If thy dreadful controversy
      With all flesh is now begun,
      In thy wrath remember mercy,
      Mercy first and last be shown;
      Plead thy cause with sword and fire,
      Shake us till the curse remove,
      Till thou com'st, the world's desire,
      Conquering all with sovereign love.

      3 Every fresh alarming token
      More confirms the faithful word;
      Nature (for its Lord hath spoken)
      Must be suddenly restored:
      From this national confusion,
      From this ruined earth and skies,
      See the times of restitution,
      See the new creation rise!

      4 Vanish, then, this world of shadows,
      Pass the former things away:
      Lord, appear! appear to glad us
      With the dawn of endless day
      O conclude this mortal story,
      Throw this universe aside!
      Come, eternal King of glory,
      Now descend, and take thy bride!