Versos English Philip Doddridge LESSON XXIV. Of the Last Judgment

English poem

LESSON XXIV. Of the Last Judgment

by (1773–1832)

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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."