The Sinner — Warning and Invitation

O sinner, mark thy fate!

No. 403
Metre S. M.
Tune GOLDEN HILL.
Words Anon.
Music A. Chapin.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

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O sinner, mark thy fate!Soon will the Judge appear,And then thy cries will come too late—Too late for God to hear.

The day of mercy gone,The Spirit grieved away,The cup, long filling, now o'erflown,Demands the vengeful day.

Thy God, insulted, seemsTo draw his glittering sword;And o'er thy guilty head it gleams,To vindicate his word.

One only hope I see;O sinner, seize it now;The blood that Jesus shed for thee!No other hope hast thou.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE SINNER—WARNING AND INVITATION.»; hymn number «403» (large), tune name «GOLDEN HILL. S. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals; a small speck between GOLDEN and HILL is not a period — see uncertainties.md), «A. CHAPIN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «O»: «sin - ner» and «ap - pear» are hyphenated under the notes; «late—Too» is joined by an em dash. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, under the reference line «236, 736.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 236 or 736). «Anon.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «!» and «;» («fate !», «sword ;», «see ;», «now ;», «thee !»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophes are written straight («o'erflown», «o'er»). In stanza 3 the «n» of «vindicate» is a turned sort (printed upside down); the word is written «vindicate» (see uncertainties.md). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print.