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Lyra Fidelium: Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostle's
Creed
by S. J. Stone, B.A.,
CURATE OF WINDSOR
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[Editor's note: In the 1866 version of Lyra Fidelium Scriptures were placed beside each verse in the twelve hymns. The links on this page will allow you to move back and forth between each hymn verse and its supporting Scriptures.]
ARTICLE
VII.
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"from thence He shall
come to judge the quick and the dead."
"Looking for and
hasting unto the coming of the day of God."
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(Tune No, 82.)
MISTFUL are our waiting eyes,
As of them who saw Him rise
From that mountain to the skies.
Then the
holy Angels near
Gave them tidings of good cheer:
"Jesus shall again appear."
And we wait
an Angel's cry,
Piercing earthward from the sky:
"Now, behold your Lord is
nigh!"
Yet, who
shall abide that day,
When the judge with dread array
Comes for universal sway?
Dreadly
shall His summons sweep,
Heard by those who wake or sleep,
On the height or in the deep:
Heard by
Life'mid all its bloom,
Heard by Death in every tomb-
Terrible decree of,doom.
As the
fisher parts his prey,
Casting these from those away,
So it shall be on that day.
For the
gathered souls who stand,
Waiting that supreme command,
He shall part on either hand.
To those
souls of quick and dead,
" Come," shall be the
blessing said,
" Go," shall be the cursing
dread.
Lord, dwell
in us now, we pray,
That, in the dividing day,
We be not the cast away!
So shall we
till Thou appear
Blend, in longing eye and ear,
Holy joy with holy fear! Amen.
SUMMARY OF
TRUTHS CONFESSED IN ARTICLE VII. I believe that the Son of God in that
human nature in which He ascended into Heaven shall come again from thence, and shall
gather together all the quick, -- that is, those who shall then be alive, --and all those
who before that day shall have died, and shall judge them according to their works; and He
will deliever the wicked to everlasting torment with the devil and his angels, and will
translate the elect into His glorious kingdom, of which there shall be no end. -------------------------------------
"OUR conversation is in Heaven, from whence also we I look for
the Saviour."
"They looked stedfastly toward
Heavenas He went up."
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"Two men stood by them in white
apparel, which also said, This same JESUS
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go."
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"The Lord Himself shall descend
from Heaven with the voice of the archangel."
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"But who may abide the day of His
coming?"
"The Lord JESUS Christ, Who shall judge the quick and the dead at His
appearing and His kingdom."
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" We shall all stand before the
judgment seat of Christ."
" We which are alive and remain
shall not prevent them which are asleep."
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"The dead in Christ shall rise
first; then we which are alive and remain."
"He cometh to judge the
earth."
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"The kingdom of Heaven is like
unto a net ... which when it was full they drew to shore, and ... gathered the good into
vessels, but cast the bad anvay."
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"So it shall be at the end of the
world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just."
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"Then shall the King say:--
"Come, ye blessed of My Father,
inherit the kingdom."
"Depart from Me, ye cursed, into
everlasting flames."
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"God hath said, I will dwell in
them, and walk in them: and I will be their God, and they shall be My people."
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verse-
"Looking for that blessed hope,
and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour JESUS Christ."
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