This sonnet begins with the speaker imploring angels to, “At the round earth’s imagined corners blow / Your trumpets…” alluding to REVELATION 7:1. He then speaks of the redeemed dead being reunited with Christ and of those “whose eyes / Shall behold God, and never taste death’s woe” recalling 1 CORINTHIANS 15:52 and 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-17, which describe the Rapture. He ends with a humble request: “Here on this lowly ground, / Teach me how to repent, for that’s as good / As if Thou hadst seal’d my pardon with Thy blood.” The New Testament calls on the lost to “repent” continuously so that their sins may be forgiven. A good example can be found in ACTS 3:19, though the same teaching can be found in dozens of verses. For a better understanding of the relationship between Christ’s blood and a sinner’s pardon, read HEBREWS 9:11-14.
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