3. Soon redemption long expected, Saints! to meet your Lord prepare. 4. Then, with awful flames surrounded, Come to judgment! come away! * See Pet. 3-10, 12. and 1. Thess. 4.-16, 17. XVII. Is. 9.-2-8. 1. The people that in darkness walked, Have seen a glorious light; And who in Death's black shadow dwelt, Have burst the gloom of night. 2. To hail the Gospels rising beams, Joyous as when the reapers bear, 3. For unto us a Child is born, To us a Son is given, Him shall the tribes of earth obey, Him all the hosts of heaven. 4. His name shall be the PRINCE OF PEACE, The EVERLASTING LORD, The WONDERFUL, the COUNSELLOR, 5. His power increasing, still shall spread, XVIII. 1. Our song shall bless the Lord of all, 3. Without beginning or decline, 3. As much when in the manger laid, As when the six days' work he made 4. Of all the crowns JEHOVAH wears, XIX. 1. How shall we celebrate the day, 2. A humble form the Godhead wore, The pains of poverty he bore, To gaudy pomp unknown; Tho' in a human walk he trod, Still was the man Almighty God, In glory all his own. 3. Despis'd, oppress'd, the Godhead bears The torments of this vale of tears, Nor bids his vengeance rise; He sees the creatures he has made Revile his power, his peace invade, He sees with mercy's eyes. 4. My soul exert thy powers, adore, The God from whom creation sprung, XX. 1. Hark! the herald angels sing, 2. Joyful, all ye nations rise, Swell the triumph of the skies, With th' angelic host proclaim, "CHRIST is born, in Bethlehem." 3. Veil'd in flesh the GODHEAD see, Pleas'd as man, with man to appear, 4. Hail the heav'n born PRINCE OF PEACE; Hail the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; Light and life to all he brings, 5. Mild he lays his glory by, XXI. 1. O SAVIOUR! whom this holy morn, To wandering and to labour born, 2. Incarnate WORD! by every grief, |