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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

9857. How Dreadful Is The Sinner's Fate

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
Tune Information
Name: MARTYRDOM
Composer: Hugh Wilson (1800)
Arranger: Ralph E. Hudson (1885)
Meter: CM
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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