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BOOK II. 7 Under sorrows and reproaches, May this thought your courage raise, Swiftly God s great day approaches, Sighs shall then be changed to praise. We shall triumph when the world is in a blaze.

1 GOD with one piercing glance looks through Creation s wide-extended frame; The past and future in his view, And days and ages are the same.

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,

3 As pangs the labouring woman feels, Or as the thief in midnight sleep, So comes that day for which the wheels Of time their ceaseless motion keep !

4 Hark ! from the sky the trump proclaims Jesus the Judge approaching nigh ! See the creation wrapt in flames, First kindled by his vengeful eye !

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?

6 The puny works which feeble men Now boast or covet or admire ; Their pomp and arts and treasures then Shall perish in one common fire.

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.