508 Marlow. C.M.

(1103) Certainty of Judgment.

That awful day will surely come,

Th' appointed hour makes haste,

When I must stand before the Judge

And pass the solemn test.

2 Thou lovely Chief of all my joys,

Thou Sovereign of my heart,

How could I bear to hear thy voice

Pronounce the sound, "Depart!"

3 Oh, wretched state of deep despair,

To see my God remove,

And fix my dreadful station where

I must not taste his love!

4 Oh, tell me that my worthless name

Is graven on thy hands;

Show me some promise in thy book

Where my salvation stands.

Isaac Watts, 1707.