When the almighty Jesus cries

Verse 1
When th’ Almighty Jesus cries,
Hears the soul in paradise,
Hasts the summons to obey,
Re-assumes his mortal clay,
To our dying life restor’d,
Lives again to serve his Lord.

Verse 2
All that voice of God shall hear,
All forsake the sepulchre,
Put again their bodies on,
Stand arraign’d before the throne;
Then the awful Judge we see:
Now, my God, He pleads for me!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He cried with a loud voice.’—[John 11,] v. 43." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 479.
Publishing: Public Domain