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d, All mourning passes--all their griefs are fled. No more their souls with racking pains are riven, Their Lord admits them to the peace of heaven; The sinner there, with guilty crime oppressed, Bears on his brow the fears of hell confess'd. Behold him now--his guilty looks--I see His God condemns, and mercy's God is He; No joy for him, for him no heaven appears To bid him welcome from a vale of tears. Hark! Jesu's voice with awful terrors swell, It shakes even heaven, it shakes the nether hell: "Away ye cursed from my sight, retire Down to the depths of hell's eternal fire, Down to the realms of endless pain and night, Ye fiends accursed, from my angry sight Depart! for heaven with saintly inmates pure No crime can harbour or can sin endure, Away! away where fiends infernal dwell, Down to your home and taste the pains of hell. Behold his servants--Lo, the virtuous bands Await the sentence which the life demands; All blameless they their course in virtue run Have for their brows a crown of glory won. Their Saviour's voice, a sound of heavenly love, Admits them smiling to the realms above: "Approach, ye faithful, to the heaven of peace, Where worldly sorrows shall for ever cease. Come, blessed children, share my bright abode, Rest in the bosom of your King and God, Where thousand saints in grateful concert sing Loud hymns of glory to th' Eternal King." For you, beloved, I hung upon the tree, That where I am there also ye might be; The infernal god (ye trembling sinners quake) Shall hurl you headlong on the burning lake, There shall ye die, nor dying shall expire, Rolled on the waves of everlasting fire, Whilst Christ shall bid his own lov'd flock rejoice, And lead them upward with approving voice, Where countless hosts their heavenly Lord obey, And sing Hosannas in the courts of day. O gracious God! each trembling suppliant spare-- Grant each the glory of that song to share; May Christ, my God, a kind physician be, And may He grant me bless'd Eternity! THE IMMOVABLE COVENANT. [The Reverend David Lewis Pughe, who translated the following piece from the Welsh of Mr. H. Hughes, was a Minister in the Baptist Church, and was possessed of extensive learning, and a highly critical taste. After officiating as Minister at a Church in Swansea and other places, he finally settled at Builth, where he died at an early age.] Ye cloud piercing mountains so mighty, Whose age is the age of the sky;
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