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Recitative, accompany'd.

Behold I tell you a Myſtery: We ſhall not all ſleep, but we ſhall be all changed in a Moment, in the twinkling of an Eye, at the laſt Trumpet.

SONG.

The Trumpet ſhall ſound, and the Dead ſhall be raiſed incorruptible, and we ſhall be changed. For this Corruption muſt put on Incorruption, and this Mortal muſt put on Immortality. [Da Capo.

Recitative.

Then ſhall be brought to paſs the Saying that is written, Death is ſwallowed up in Victory.

DUET.

O Death, where is thy Sting?
O Grave, where is thy Victory?
$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$The Sting of Death is Sin,
And the Strength of Sin is the Law,