#36 - Pleyel's Hymn

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• Composer:
  • Ignace (Ignaz) Joseph Pleyel

    • #36 - Pleyel's Hymn
    • #2108 - Pleyel's Hymn

    (1757-1831), 1790
• Also known as:
  • Children of the Heavenly King
  • Hasten, Sinner, To Be Wise!
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• Lyrics:
  Children of the heavenly King,
  As ye journey, sweetly sing;
  Sing your Savior's worthy praise,
  Glorious in His works and ways
  
  We are traveling home to God,
  In the way the fathers trod;
  They are happy now, and we
  Soon their happiness shall see.
  
  O, ye banished seed, be glad!
  Christ our Advocate is made;
  Us to save, our flesh assumes,
  Brother to our souls becomes.
  
  Shout, ye little flock, and blest,
  You on Jesus' throne shall rest:
  There your seat is now prepared—
  There your kingdom and reward.
  
  Lift your eyes, ye sons of light,
  Zion's city is in sight:
  There our endless home shall be,
  There our Lord we soon shall see.
  
  Fear not, brethren; joyful stand
  On the borders of your land;
  Jesus Christ, your Father's Son,
  Bids you undismayed go on.
  
  Lord, obedient we would go,
  Gladly leaving all below;
  Only Thou our Leader be;
  And we will still follow Thee.
  
  
  • John Cennick

    • #36 - Pleyel's Hymn
    • #624 - Duane Street
    • #2108 - Pleyel's Hymn

    (1718-1755), 1742
• Lyrics:
  Hasten, sinner, to be wise!
  Stay not for the morrow's sun:
  Wisdom if you still despise,
  Harder is it to be won.
  
  Hasten, mercy, to implore!
  Stay not for the morrow's sun,
  Lest thy season should be o'er,
  Ere this evening's stage be run.
  
  Hasten, sinner, to return!
  Stay not for the morrow's sun,
  Lest thy lamp should fail to burn
  Ere salvation's work is done.
  
  Hasten, sinner, to be blest!
  Stay not for the morrow's sun,
  Lest perdition thee arrest,
  Ere the morrow is begun.
  
  
  • Thomas Scott (1705-1776), 1771
• See also:
  • #2108 - Pleyel's Hymn