This Is The Field, The World Below by Charles Wesley

Hymns 51 - Death and the Future Life, The Last Judgment (932-937) by Charles Wesley

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This Is The Field, The World Below
by Charles Wesley

Album: Hymns 51 - Death and the Future Life, The Last Judgment (932-937)

1 THIS is the field, the world below,
In which the sowers came to sow,
Jesus the wheat, Satan the tares,
For so the word of truth declares:
And soon the reaping time will come,
And angels shout the harvest home.

2 Most awful truth! and is it so?
Must all the world that harvest know?
Is every man or wheat or tare?
Then for that harvest O prepare!
For soon the reaping time will come,
And angels shout the harvest home.

3 To love my sins, - a saint to appear,
To grow with wheat - yet be a tare,
May serve me while I live below,
Where tares and wheat together grow:
But soon the reaping time will come,
And angels shout the harvest home.

4 But all who truly righteous be
Their Father's kingdom then shall see;
And shine like suns for ever there:
He that hath ears, now let him hear;
For soon the reaping time will come,
And angels shout the harvest home.