Yes; we know, our Lord will come,
Smite the Antichrist of Rome,
All his plagues and judgments pour,
Earth accurst with fire devour!
But the curse shall soon remove,
But th’ incarnate God of love
Sitting on his throne shall shew
EARTH RENEW’D IS HEAVEN BELOW.
Yes; we know, our Lord will come
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Lest I come, and smite the earth with a curse.”—[Mal.] iv. 6. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 135.
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