Can Ye Feel So Now? Lyrics

And now, behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church

Have ye spiritually been born of God

Have ye received his image in your countenances

Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts

Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you

Do you look forward with an eye of faith and view this mortal body, raised in immortality

And this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged according

To the deeds which have been done in the mortal body

I say unto you, can you imagine to yourselves that ye hear the voice of the Lord saying

Unto you in that day, Come unto me, ye blessed, for behold, your works have been the works

Of righteousness upon the face of the earth

Or do ye imagine to yourselves that ye can lie unto the Lord in that day and say, Lord

Our works have been righteous works upon the face of the earth, and that he will save you

Or otherwise can ye imagine yourselves brought before the tribunal of God with your souls

Filled with guilt and remorse, having a remembrance of all your guilt, yea, a perfect remembrance

Of all your wickedness, yea, a remembrance that ye have set at defiance the commandments

Of God

I say unto you, can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands

I say unto you, can you look up, having the image of God been graven upon your countenances

I say unto you, can ye think of being saved when you have yielded yourselves to become

Subjects to the devil

I say unto you, ye will know at that day that ye cannot be saved, for there can no man be

Saved except his garments are washed white

Yea, his garments must be purified until they are cleansed from all stain through the blood

Of him of whom it has been spoken by our fathers

Who should come to redeem his people from their sins

And now I ask of you, my brethren, how will any of you feel if ye shall stand before the

Bar of God, having your garments stained with blood and all manner of filthiness

Behold, what will these things testify against you

Behold, will they not testify that ye are murderers, yea, and also that ye are guilty

Of all manner of wickedness

Behold, my brethren, do ye suppose that such an one can have a place to sit down in the

Kingdom of God with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, and also all the holy prophets

Whose garments are cleansed and are spotless, pure and white

I say unto you, nay, except ye make our Creator a liar from the beginning, or suppose that

He is a liar from the beginning

Ye cannot suppose that such can have place in the kingdom of heaven, but they shall be

Cast out, for they are the children of the kingdom of the devil

And now, behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart

And if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now

Have ye walked keeping yourselves blameless before God

Would ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves that ye have

Been sufficiently humble, that your garments have been cleansed and made white through

The blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins

Behold are ye stripped of pride, I say unto you, if ye are not,

Ye are not prepared to meet God

Behold ye must prepare quickly, for the kingdom of heaven is soon at hand, and such an one

Hath not eternal life

Behold I say, is there one among you who is not stripped of envy

I say unto you that such an one is not prepared, and I would that he should prepare quickly

For the hour is close at hand, and he knoweth not when the time shall come, for such an

One is not found guiltless

And again I say unto you, is there one among you that doth make a mock of his brother

Or that heapeth upon him persecutions

Woe unto such an one, for he is not prepared, and the time is at hand that he must repent

Or he cannot be saved

Yea, even woe unto all ye workers of iniquity

Repent, repent, for the Lord God hath spoken it

Behold he sendeth an invitation unto all men,

For the arms of mercy are extended towards Them

And he saith, Repent, and I will receive you