English poem
LESSON XXIV. Of the Last Judgment
by Philip Doddridge (1773–1832)
When Christ to judge the world descends, Thus shall he say to all his friends: "Come blessed souls, that kingdom share, My Father did for you prepare." Then to the wicked, "cursed crew, Depart; heaven is no place for you; "To those eternal burnings go, whose pangs the rebel angels know." I at that judgment must appear, and must this solomn sentence hear (as I'm with saints or sinners plac'd ("Depart ye curs'd," or, "come ye blest."
More by Philip Doddridge
- LESSON XVIII. Of the means of Grace
- LESSON XXI. Of the Holy Angels
- LESSON XXII. On Death
- LESSON XXIII. Resurrection of the Dead
- LESSON XXV. Heaven and Hell
- LESSON XXVI. Reflections on the value of the soul
- Liberty to enter thro' the Veil by the Blood of CHRIST. Heb. x. 19-22
- Living to him, who died for us. 2 Cor. v. 14, 15