Second Advent

Lo! He comes, with clouds descending

No. 905
Metre 8s, 7s & 4.
Tune ZION.
Words Charles Wesley.
Music Thomas Hastings.
Key D major
Singing key C major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

Lo! He comes, with clouds descending,Once for favored sinners slain;Countless angels, him attending,Swell the triumph of his train:Hallelujah!Jesus comes, and comes to reign,Hallelujah!Jesus comes, and comes to reign.

Every eye shall now behold himRobed in dreadful majesty!Those who set at naught and sold him,Pierced, and nailed him to the tree,Deeply wailing,Shall the true Messiah see!

When the solemn trump has sounded,Heaven and earth shall flee away;All who hate him, must, confounded,Hear the summons of that day,—"Come to Judgment!Come to Judgment! Come away!"

Yea, amen! let all adore thee,High on thy eternal throne!Saviour, take the power and glory,Make thy righteous sentence known;O come quickly,Claim the kingdom for thine own!

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «SECOND ADVENT—EXECUTIVE JUDGMENT.»; hymn number «905» (large), tune name «ZION. 8s, 7s & 4.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «THOMAS HASTINGS.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear: under system 1, «1.» and a brace with two lines, «{ Lo! He comes, with clouds de - scend-ing, Once for fa - vored sinners slain; / Countless an-gels, him at - tend - ing, Swell the tri-umph of his train: }» (the first and the second time through the repeated first part), then «Hal - le-» after the brace; under system 2 one line, «lu-jah! Je-sus comes,and comes to reign, Halle - lu - jah! Je-sus comes, and comes to reign.» — the music sets lines 5–6 twice, and stanza 1 prints them twice; it is given here in the order sung, with both. Syllables are joined into whole words («sinners», «Countless» and «Halle» are printed unbroken under two notes). The reference line «772, 295.» (= also sung to the tunes of hymns 772 and 295) stands above stanza 2, directly under the music. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, numbered «2»–«4» without a full stop (numbered «2.»–«4.» here like stanza 1), lines 2, 4 and 6 indented and line 5 indented further; they print lines 5–6 once (sung twice, as stanza 1 shows). «Charles Wesley.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «;», «:», «!» («slain ;», «majesty !», «see !», «away ;», «Judgment !», «away !», «amen !», «throne !», «known ;», «own !») and after the opening quotation mark («" Come»); it is closed up here, and the curly quotation marks are written straight. Under the music «comes,and» (first time) is set without a space after the comma; written «comes, and» here. Spelling («Saviour», «favored»), punctuation and capitals («Lo! He comes», «Judgment») are the print's. Handwritten ink notes of the exemplar's owner in the top margin are not print and are not transcribed.