With Holy Fear and Humble Song

Verse 1

With holy fear and humble song,
The dreadful God our souls adore;
Reverence and awe becomes the tongue
That speaks the terrors of his power.

Verse 2

Far in the deep where darkness dwells,
The land of horror and despair,
Justice has built a dismal hell,
And laid her stores of vengeance there.

Verse 3

[Eternal plagues and heavy chains,
Tormenting racks and fiery coals,
And darts t’ inflict immortal pains,
Dy’d in the blood of damned souls.]

Verse 4

[There Satan the first sinner lies,
And roars, and bites his iron bands;
In vain the rebel strives to rise,
Crush’d with the weight of both thine hands.]

Verse 5

There guilty ghosts of Adam’s race
Shriek out, and howl beneath thy rod;
Once they could scorn a Saviour’s grace,
But they incens’d a dreadful God.

Verse 6

Tremble, my soul, and kiss the Son;
Sinners, obey the Saviour’s call;
Else your damnation hastens on,
And hell gapes wide to wait your fall.