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Stop, poor sinner! stop and think Alarm

John Newton printed it in 1779 in Olney Hymns, Book III, no. 2, under Revelation 6:16.

WRITTEN BY

John Newton 1725–1807

PRINTED

1779 Olney Hymns · no. 2

METRE

7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6 5 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

Revelation 6:16 the verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 5 stanzas as Newton printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

SHARED WORDSthe verse shares the line's wording ECHOproposed by an AI model, confirmed by a separate check Not the author's own notes

AMONG THE SCRIPTURES

The stanzas at the centre; around them, every book its heading and its echoes come from, Old Testament on the left and New on the right. Choose a stanza or a book.

a line echoes this verse its heading or an echo comes from here

STANZA I

Stop, poor sinner! stop and think

Before you farther go!

Will you sport upon the brink

Of everlasting woe?

Once again I charge you, stop!

For, unless you warning take,

Ere you are aware, you drop

Into the burning lake!

Where Newton found it

Newton printed the hymn under Revelation 6:16. The line that comes closest to it is marked.

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. REVELATION 6:16 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE READ REVELATION 6

Though your heart be made of steel, Your forehead lined with brass, GOD at length will make you feel, He will not let you pass: Sinners then in vain will call, (Though they now despise his grace) Rocks and mountains on us fall, And hide us from his face! STANZA IV

Its place in the book

Book III of the hymn book, “On the progress and changes of the spiritual life”, holds these hymns in this order: 106 hymns. This is number 2. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 2 · JOHN NEWTON · THIS HYMN Stop, poor sinner! stop and think

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