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5 Thus Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

In this decree are one,
To save us sinners, vile and lost,
By Jesus Christ the Son:
The Father's love we plainly trace
In Christ th' incarnate God;
What we possess of life and grace
The Spirit hath bestow'd.

6. Come sinners, view th' incarnate Word,

Who us and all things made; This helpless Babe is Christ the Lord, Though in a manger laid. For us to die is Jesus born,

Adore his saving name, Rejoice, rejoice! for all that mourn May his salvation claim.

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T. 151.
HOW shall I meet my Saviour?
How shall I welcome thee?
What manner of behaviour

Is now requir'd of me ?
I wait for thy salvation,
Grant me thy Spirit's light,
Thus will my preparation
Be pleasing in thy sight.

2 While with her fragrant flowers
Thy Zion strews thy way,
I'll raise with all my powers
To thee a grateful lay:
I'll thee, the King of glory,
For thy great goodness praise,
And thankfully adore thee

Throughout my future days.
3 What hast thou not performed
From death to rescue me!
While I was so deformed

By sin and misery; Fair gifts of my creation

Quite lost, made me despair; But thy blest incarnation Brought my redemption near. 4 I lay in fetters groaning,

Thou cam'st to set me free; My shame I was bemoaning, With grace thou clothedst me; Thou raisedst me to glory, Endowedst me with bliss,

Which is not transitory,

As worldly grandeur is.

5 Love caus'd thy incarnation, Love brought thee down to me! Thy thirst for my salvation Procur'd my liberty:

O Love beyond all measure!

Wherewith thou dost embrace Mankind, 'midst all that pressure Which since the fall takes place. 6 No sinful man's endeavor,

Nor any mortal's care, Could draw his sov'reign favor To sinners in despair : Uncall'd, he comes with gladness Us from the fall to raise, And change our grief and sadness To songs of joy and praise.

7 Be not cast down, nor frighted At sin, though e'er so great; No! Jesus is delighted

The greatest to remit :
He comes, repenting sinners

With life and love to crown,
And make them happy winners
Of glory like his own.

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2 TheSon of God, who fram'd the skies, Now humbly in a manger lies; He, who the earth's foundations laid, A helpless infant now is made. Hal. 3 Th' eternal and almighty God Assumes our feeble flesh and blood; He deigns with sinful men to dwell, Is God with us, Immanuel. Hal. 4-He is the Sun of righteousness, Which riseth with resplendent grace, And doth dispel sin's gloomy night, Thatwemayshare his saving light. Hal. 5 To grant us pardon, peace and rest, He in this world became a guest,

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T. 157.
RISE
my soul, shake off all sadness,
Christ is near-thee to cheer;
Angels sing with gladness:
Unto you is born a Saviour
On this day;-don't delay
To accept God's favor.

2 Our eternal, kind Creator
Leaves his own-glorious throne,
And assumes our nature:
From perdition full exemption
To procure,--and endure
Death for our redemption.
3 O th' amazing demonstration
Of his love, which we prove
By his incarnation!

If mankind by him were loathed,
How could he-deign to be
With our nature clothed?

4 See your Saviour in a manger;
'Midst his own,-yet unknown,
Treated like a stranger;
Tended by an earthly mother:
Him believe, and receive,
He is Christ your Brother?
5 Lo! he in the
manger lieth ;
Full of grace,-truth and peace,
Sweetly thus he crieth:
"Cease my brethren,now from grieving,
Anxiousness-and distress;
Your loss I'm retrieving."

6 Ye that feel quite poor and needy,
Come, who will,-take your fill,
All things now are ready :

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INFINITE Source, whence all did
Thou of all things the Head and Lord,
Thou mighty and eternal King,
Who art in heav'n and earth ador'd,
Thouwhom the heav'ns cannot contain,
Didst deign to leave thy throne above,
To be an infant poor and mean:
O myst❜ry deep! O boundless love!
2 The cause of this, I know it well,
Was thy great love and my great woe;
I was an heir of death and hell,
This prompted thee to stoop so low;
My mis'ry mov'd the God of grace,
Who in the Father's bosom lay,
When the due time had taken place
His deep compassion to display.
3 What off'ring shall I bring to thee,
Immanuel, my King and God!
Thou who vouchsaf'st a man to be,
To save me by thy precious blood;
Thou to whom angels praises sing,
"Peace upon earth, good will to men;"
To whom the sages humbly bring
Their gifts, tho' thou appear so mean.
4. This will I do, thou Child divine!
I'll give thee that forwhich thou cam'st;
My soul and body, Lord, are thine,
And them in love to me thou claim'st.
My humble sacrifice receive,

Dear Jesus! born to bleed for me,
And with thee live eternally.
That I by faith in thee might live,

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Nowis born an infant: the virgin Mary,
Upon her arms, the Lord of hosts doth
carry,
A feeble child.

2 He who prepar'd for ev'ry bird a nest
And gave the foxes holes wherein to rest
Poverty endured, became a stranger
In his own world; then rested in a
manger
The Lord of all!

3 But why was Jesus born in poverty? Why did our Maker in a manger lie? 'Twas that he might purchase life and salvation,

And gain for us a glorious habitation In realms of bliss. 4 O Jesus Christ, thou only holy child, How canst thou show such love to sin

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COME ye redeemed of the Lord,
Your grateful tribute bring,
And celebrate, with one accord,

The birth of Christ our King:
Let us with humble hearts repair
(Faith will point out the road)
To little Bethlehem, and there
Adore th' incarnate God.

2 All glory to Immanuel's name
The choirs of angels sing;
Gladly these heralds peace proclaim,
Peace from our God and King:
Well might the shepherds haste away
This wond'rous Babe to see;
Well might the sages homage pay,
Before him bow the knee.

3 We too have reason to rejoice,
When we this myst'ry view,

That Godassum'd our flesh and blood, O wonder ever new!

We humbly in the dust adore;

Lord, who is like to thee!
That thou, vile sinners to restore,
Hast deign'd a man to be.

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SINNERS, with adoration
Receive this wond'rous Child,
Who came and brought salvation,
Th' eternal Father styl❜d:
Behold him with our nature drest,
Divested of his glory,

In his own world a guest.
2 With his blest incarnation
His glorious work began,
A needful preparation

For his whole future plan;
Had not his body been prepar'd,
He never could have suffer'd,
Nor we his nature shar'd.
3 Behold! laid in a manger,
The Ancient of all days;
Upon this heav'nly Stranger

With awe and rev'rence gaze;
He, who the world's foundation laid
Must now be fed and nourish'd
By creatures whom he made.
4. Though to his boundless mercy
No limits can be set,
Yet without controversy

The mystery is great;
Angels into its depths can't pry,
'Tis great, immense, stupendous ;
Jehovah, born to die!

40. * T. 169.

ARISE my spirit, bless the day
Whereon the ages' Sire

A Child became; thy homage pay,
Receive him with desire.
This is the night in which he came,
Was born, and put on human frame,
Us sinners to deliver

From sin and death for ever. 2 Welcome, thouSource of ev'rygood, O Jesus, King of glory!

Welcome, thrice welcome, Lamb of
To this world transitory! [God,
In grateful hymns thy name I'll praise,
With heart and voice throughout my
For thy blest incarnation [days;
Procured my salvation.

3 Ah Jesus! thy unworthy bride
Deserved to be loathed,
And yet thou hast her to thyself
Upon the cross betrothed:
Her portion had been infamy,
Eternal shame and misery,

Hadst thou not left thy glory: Who can enough adore thee! 4 O lovely Infant! thou art full

Of grace above all measure; Thou art more precious to my soul Than ev'ry other treasure: Come, Jesus, come, abide with me, O let my heart thy dwelling be; Then I, without cessation, Shall joy in thy salvation,

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ALL glory be to God on high!
Ye sons of Adam, fill the sky

With praise and thankfulness;
God, mov'd by everlasting love,
Decreed with his dear Son above,

A sinful world to save and bless. 2 Stand still, and see what God hath His only and beloved Son [done;

For us he freely gave;
For us, and for the num'rous race
Of cursed sinners vile and base!

Yea, ev'n the worst he came to save.
3 He as a poor mean Child was born,
His birth no palace did adorn,
A manger was his bed;
Look, look upon this rising Sun,
Till tears of love your eyes o'er-run:
This lovely babeis Christ our Head.

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WHAT good news the angels bring! What glad tidings of our King! Christ the Lord is born to-day, Christ, who takes our sins away.

2 He who rules both heav'nand earth,
Hath in Bethlehem his birth;
Him shall all the faithful see,
And rejoice eternally.

3 Lift your hearts and voices high,
With hosannas fill the sky:
Glory be to God above,
Who is infinite in love!

4 Peace on earth, good will to men!
Now with us our God is seen:
Angels join his name to praise,
Help to sing redeeming grace.
5 Jesus is the loveliest name;
This the angel doth proclaim;
Sinners poor he came to save,
They in him redemption have.
6 They who see themselves undone,
And take refuge to the Son,
They shall all be born again,
And with him in glory reign.

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ALL the world give praises due!
God is faithful, God is true:
He to man doth comfort send
In his Son, the sinners' Friend.
2 What the fathers wish'd of old,
What the promises foretold,
What the seers did prophesy,
Is fulfill'd most gloriously.

3 My Salvation, welcome be;
Thou, my Portion, praise to thee!
Come, and make thy blest abode
In my heart, O Son of God.
4 Grant thy comforts to my mind,
Since I'm helpless, poor and blind;
O may I in faith abide

Thine, and never turn aside.
5 Jesus, when in majesty
Thou shalt come my judge to be,
Grant in grace that I may stand
Justify'd at thy right hand.

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IMMANUEL, to thee we sing, Thou Prince of life, almighty King,

That thou, expected ages past,
Didst come to visit us at last.

2 Thou Lord, tho' heaven belongs to
On earth a stranger deign'st to be[thee,
Thou clothest all, yet wear'st a dress
Which doth the poorest state express.
3 Thou dost a mother's nursing need,
Who dost the whole creation feed;
Thou who control'st the sea and wind,
In swadling-clothes art now confin'd.
4 On wither'd grass reclines thy head,
A wretched manger is thy bed:
Tho' thou appear'st among thine own,
No kindness unto thee is shown.
5 I thank thee,gracious Lord, that thou
On my account didst stoop so low:
O that
works and ways
my words, my
May all proclaim thy matchless praise!

45.* T. 22.

CHRIST,whom thevirgin Marybore,
We all with humble hearts adore;
O might all nations,tribes and tongues,
To our Immanuel raise their songs.
2 God who to all things being gave,
The fallen human race to save,
Assum'd our feeble flesh and blood,
And for our debt as Surety stood.
3 He who the wants of all supplies,
Now in a manger helpless lies,
He who the whole creation feeds,
An earthly mother's nursing needs.
4 The angels at his birth rejoice,
And sing his praise with cheerful voice;
The shepherds, hearing Christ is born,
To Jesus, our chief Shepherd, turn.

5 Thanks to the Father now be giv'n, Who sent his Son to us from heav'n: Thanks to the Son who saves the lost, Thanks to our Guide the Holy Ghost. 46.* T. 22.

TO-day we celebrate the birth
Of Jesus Christ, who came on earth,
Man as his property to claim,
And from perdition to redeem.

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[glorious, CHRIST the Lord, the Lord most Now is born; O shout aloud! Man by him is made victorious;

Praise your Saviour, hail your God! 2 Praise the Lord, for on us shineth Christ the Sun of righteousness; He to us in love inclineth, [grace. Cheers our souls with pard'ning 3Praisethe Lord, whosesavingsplendor Shines into the darkest night; O what praises shall we render For this never-ceasing light! 4 Praise the Lord, God our Salvation, Praise him who retriev'd our loss; Sing with awe and love's sensation; HALLELUJAH, GOD WITH US!

48. T. 585. HAIL,thouwond'rousinfant stranger, Born, lost Eden to regain; Welcome in thy humble manger, Welcome to thy creature man! Hail Immanuel :|: thou who wast ere time began.

2 Say, ye blest seraphic legions, What thus brought yourMakerdown? Say, why did he leave your regions, Why forsake his heav'nly throne ? Notes melodious :: tell the cause: "Good will to man""

3 We this offer'd favor needed,

Hence we join your theme with joy;

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