John Cennick – born

ON THIS DATE

John Cennick was born 12/12/1718, at Reading, England, to Quaker parents.  He was saved (after doing petty thefts and lying) at 17, hearing in church “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all” Psa 34.19.  He met the Wesleys and joined their work.  In 1740, he became a teacher at Kingswood, England, on the recommendation of John Wesley.  Later, he joined the Moravians, and visited their headquarters at Herrnhut, but he spent much of his time as an itinerant evangelist (Britain, Germany, Ireland).  A street was named after him in Gracehill, Ireland, where the local Moravian church has a plaque in his honor.  At his death (7/4/1755, in London, only 36) he left behind a wife, two children, and forty (40) churches he had started.

One of his songs:

Lo! He cometh, countless trumpets  Blow before His bloody sign! ’Midst ten thousand saints and angels,  See the Crucified shine. Allelujah!  Welcome, welcome, bleeding Lamb!

Now His merits by the harpers,  Thro’ the eternal deep resounds! Now resplendent shine His nail-prints, Every eye shall see His wounds; They who pierced Him,  Shall at His appearing wail.

Every island, sea, and mountain,  Heaven and earth shall flee away! All who hate Him must, ashamed,  Hear the trump proclaim His day: Come to judgment!  Stand before the Son of Man!

All who love Him view His glory,  Shining in His bruised face: His dear person on the rainbow,  Now His people’s heads shall raise: Happy mourners!  Now on clouds He comes! He comes!

Now redemption, long expected,  See, in solemn pomp appear: All His people, once despised,  Now shall meet Him in the air: Allelujah!  Now the promised kingdom’s come!

View Him smiling, now determined  Every evil to destroy! All the nations now shall sing Him  Songs of everlasting joy! O come quickly! Allelujah! come Lord, come!

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John Cennick – death, Jul. 4, 1755

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.

 

Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

 

Every island, sea, and mountain,
Heav’n and earth, shall flee away;
All who hate Him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment! Come to judgment! Come to judgment!
Come to judgment! Come away!

 

Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear;
All His saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet Him in the air:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
See the day of God appear!

 

Answer Thine own bride and Spirit,
Hasten, Lord, the general doom!
The new Heav’n and earth t’inherit,
Take Thy pining exiles home:
All creation, all creation, all creation,
Travails! groans! and bids Thee come!

 

The dear tokens of His passion
Still His dazzling body bears;
Cause of endless exultation
To His ransomed worshippers;
With what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

 

Yea, Amen! let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory,
Claim the kingdom for Thine own;
O come quickly! O come quickly! O come quickly!
Everlasting God, come down!

 

John Cennick died this date, 7/4/1755.  John changed his possible occupation from surveying to preaching due to the influence of John and Charles Wesley.  He later taught at Kingswood and later yet became a Moravian.  Cennick, born 12/12/1718, was primarily an itin­er­ant evan­gel­ist but is credited with over ten hymns.

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John Cennick – birth, Dec. 12, 1718

“Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending”   (stanzas 1-3)

Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.

Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

Every island, sea, and mountain,
Heav’n and earth, shall flee away;
All who hate Him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment! Come to judgment! Come to judgment!
Come to judgment! Come away!

John Cennick born (of Quaker parents) this date, 12/12/1718 in Reading, England.  He died 7/4/1755 in London.

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