7.

HOSANNA to the living LORD!
Hosanna to the Incarnate Word!
TO CHRIST, CREATOR, SAVIOUR, King,
Let earth, let heaven, hosanna sing!

O SAVIOUR! in our cleansed breast,
Bid Thine eternal SPIRIT rest,
And make our secret soul to be

A temple pure, and worthy Thee!

So in the last and dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall melt away,
Thy flock, redeem'd from sinful stain,
Shall swell the sound of praise again.

Hosanna, LORD! Thine angels cry;
Hosanna, LORD! Thy saints reply;
Above, beneath us, and around,

The dead and living swell the sound.

8.

HARK, the glad sound, the SAVIOUR comes,
The SAVIOUR promis'd long ;
Let every heart exult with joy,
And every voice be song.

He comes, the prisoners to release
In Satan's bondage held;

The gates of brass before Him burst,

The iron fetters yield.

He comes, from dark'ning scales of vice
To clear the inward sight;
And on the eyeballs of the blind
To pour celestial light.

Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim;
And heaven's exalted arches ring
With Thy most honoured Name.

9.

THE LORD will come ;-the earth shall quake,
The hills their fixed seat forsake,

And, withering from the vault of night,
The stars withdraw their feeble light.

The LORD will come :-but not the same
As once in lowly form He came,
A silent Lamb to slaughter led,

The bruised, the suffering, and the dead.

The LORD will come ;-a dreadful form,
With wreath of flame, and robe of storm,
On Cherubim, and wings of wind,
Anointed Judge of all mankind.

C

Christmas.

10.

O COME, ye faithful, and your homage bring To David's town with glad accord;

Behold the SON, behold the angels' King:

O come ye, and sing praises to the Lord!

For He, the GOD of GOD, the Light of Light,
The Virgin's womb hath not abhorr'd;
And God is now reveal'd to mortal sight;
O come ye, and sing praises to the Lord!

And hark! the angels through the lofty sky
Their praises to His Name afford;

All glory they ascribe to GOD on high:
O come ye, and sing praises to the LORD!

O JESU, virgin-born! Thy Name shall be On this Thy day for aye adored; Incarnate Word of God, we worship Thee:

O come ye, and sing praises to the LORD!

11.

HARK, the herald angels sing,
Glory to the new-born King,
Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
GOD and sinners reconciled.

Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
Join the triumph of the skies,
With th' angelic host proclaim,
CHRIST is born in Bethlehem.

CHRIST, by highest heaven adored,
CHRIST, the Everlasting LORD!
Late in time behold Him come,
Offspring of a virgin's womb.

Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
Hail! th' Incarnate Deity;

Pleased as Man, with man to dwell,

JESUS, our Immanuel.

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.

Hail, the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail, the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,

Risen with healing in His wings.