3 Tho' veil'd on earth, thy glory shone,
The God blaz'd forth to human view;
And all who could discern the Son,
Beheld the Father's presence too!
4 All human gifts, and heav'nly stores,
In our Immanuel's Person meet!
The perfect man, the Godhead's pow'rs,
Forming a Saviour quite complete!
5 His Person soareth out of sight,
The myst'ry magnify'd by Paul!
A child-and yet the God of might!
A worm-and yet the Lord of All!
GOD with us!" O glorious Name!
Let it shine in endless fame:
God and man in Christ unite-
O, mysterious depth and height!
2 "God with us!" Amazing love
Brought him from his courts above;
Now, ye saints, his grace admire,
Swell the song with holy fire.
3 "God with us!" But tainted not
With the first transgressor's blot:
Yet did he our sins sustain,
All the guilt, the curse, the pain.
4" God with us!" Oh, blissful theme!
Let the impious not blaspheme;
Jesus shall in judgment sit,
Dooming rebels to the pit.
5" God with us!" O wondrous grace!
We shall see him face to face;
Then we shall Immanuel sing
As we ought-our God and King.
6 But, O mystery Divine!
"God with us!"-then God is mine:
Mine-to save from curse and sin;
Mine the bliss of heav'n within!
1 THEE we adore, Eternal Word!
The Father's equal Son;
By heav'n's obedient host ador'd,
Ere time its course begun.
2 The first creation has display'd
Thine energy divine;
For not a single thing was made
By other hands than thine:
3 But ransom'd sinners, with delight,
Sublimer wonders scan ;
They see the Word Divine unite
Himself to wretched man!
4 Creation's Author now assumes
A creature's humble form;
A man of grief and woe becomes,
And trod on like a worm.
5 The Lord of glory bears the shame
To vile transgressors due;
Justice the Prince of Life condemns
To die in anguish too.
6 God over all, for ever blest,
The righteous curse endures;
And to his church, with sin distrést,
Eternal bliss ensures..
7 Hail, King of saints! for ever hail,
Redeemer, brother, friend!
Tho' life, and earth, and time shall fail,
Thy praise shall never end!
1 CHRIST, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only Light,
Sun of Righteousness, arise,
Triumph o'er the shades of night;
Day-spring, from on high be near,
Day-star, in my heart appear.
2 Dark and cheerless is the morn,
Unaccompany'd by thee,
Joyless is the day's return,
Till thy mercy's beams we see;
Till they inward light impart,
Glad our eyes, and warm our heart.
3 Visit ev'ry soul of thine,
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief,
Fill with radiance divine,
Scatter all our unbelief;
More and more thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.
1 ALL hail, redeeming Lord,
Sweet Day-star from on high!
All hail, thou Sun of Righteousness,
Great source of vital joy!
2 Shine, lovely star of day,
Around, and in us shine;
And our benighted souls shall own
Thy light and love divine.
3 Our wand'ring footsteps guide
Thro' all this desert place;
Beneath thy beams we'll trace the path
Of happiness and peace.
4 Death's vale shall lose its gloom
Cheer'd by thy vital ray,
And open to our longing eyes
An everlasting day.
1 SEE from the dungeon of the dead
Our great Deliv❜rer rise;
While conquest wreathes his heav'nly head, And glory glads his eyes.
2 The struggling Hero, strong to save,
Did all our mis'ries bear
Down to the chambers of the grave,
And left the burden there.
3 See, how the well-pleas'd angel rolls
The stone, and opes the pris'n.
Lift up your hearts, ye sin-sick souls,
And sing, "The Lord is ris'n."
4 No more indictments Justice draws,
But sets the soul at large.
Our Surety undertook the cause,
And faith's a full discharge.
5 To save us, our Redeemer dy'd;
To justify us, rose:
Where's the condemning pow'r beside
Has right to interpose?
6 "The Lord is ris'n," thou trembling soul: Let fears no more confound.
Let heav'n, and earth from pole to pole,
"The Lord is ris'n" resound.
1 YE joyful saints, attend, and raise
Your voices in harmonious praise;
Blest Comforter, our hearts prepare
To sing the bright, the Morning Star!
2 In highest heav'ns the Saviour reigns,
And endless grandeur there sustains;
We view his beams, and from afar
Sing him the bright, the Morning Star!
3 Sweet Star! his influence divine,
Life, peace, and joy, attending shine;
Death, hell, and sin, before him flee,
The bright, the Morning Star is He!
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