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3. Soon redemption long expected,
Shall in solemn pomp appear;
All his saints, by man rejected,
Rise and meet him in the air.
Hallelujah!

Saints! to meet your Lord

prepare.

4. Then, with awful flames surrounded,
Heaven and earth shall flee away;
All who hate him shall, confounded,
Hear th'Archangel's trumpet say,
Rise ye sinners!

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,
The gathering nations come,

Joyous as when the reapers bear,
The golden harvest home.

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,
The Gop, by all ador'd.

5. His power increasing, still shall spread,
His reign no end shall know;
Justice shall guard his throne above,
And peace abound below.

XVIII.

1. Our song shall bless the Lord of all,
Our praise shall climb to his abode;
The Saviour by that name we call,
The great SUPREME, the mighty God.

3. Without beginning or decline,
Object of Faith, and not of sense,
Eternal ages saw him shine,
He shines eternal ages hence,

3. As much when in the manger laid,
ALMIGHTY ruler of the sky;

As when the six days' work he made
Filled all the morning stars with joy.

4. Of all the crowns JEHOVAH wears,
Salvation is the dearest claim;
That gracious sound well pleas'd he hears,
And owns IMMANUEL for his name.

XIX.

1. How shall we celebrate the day,
When God appear'd in mortal clay,
The mark of worldly scorn;
When th' Archangels' heavenly lays,
Attempted the Redeemer's praise,
And hail'd Salvation's morn?

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,
Upon devotion's plumage soar
To celebrate the day:

The God from whom creation sprung,
Shall animate my grateful tongue,
And he inspire my lay.

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XX.

1. Hark! the herald angels sing,
Glory to the new born KING!
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconcil'd."

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,
Hail th' incarnate DEITY;

Pleas'd as man, with man to appear,
JESUS Our IMMANUEL here.

4. Hail the heav'n born PRINCE OF PEACE; Hail the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS;

Light and life to all he brings,
Ris'n with healing in his wings.

5. Mild he lays his glory by,
Born that man no more may die;
Born to raise the Sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.

XXI.

1. O SAVIOUR! whom this holy morn,
Gave to our world below;

To wandering and to labour born,
To weakness and to woe.

2. Incarnate WORD! by every grief,
By each temptation tried ;
Who lived to yield our ills relief,
And to redeem us died.

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