The Cyber Hymnal 9857. How dreadful is the sinner’s fate

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9856

The Cyber Hymnal‎#9857

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Text:	How Dreadful Is The Sinner's Fate
Author:	Charles Wesley
Tune:	MARTYRDOM
Arranger:	Ralph E. Hudson
Composer:	Hugh Wilson
Media:	MIDI file

1 How dreadful is the sinner’s fate,
Who wakes, to sleep no more,
Who knocks and calls, alas, too late,
When death hath shut the door.

2 But we who now Thy grace implore,
Shall now admitted be,
For if Thy justice shuts the door,
Thy mercy keeps the key.

Text Information
First Line:	How dreadful is the sinner’s fate
Title:	How Dreadful Is The Sinner's Fate
Author:	Charles Wesley
Meter:	CM
Language:	English
Source:	Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scriptures (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)
Copyright:	Public Domain