Worthless are my prayers and sighing, With Thy favoured sheep O place me! While the wicked are confounded, Ah, that day of tears and mourning! Man for judgment must prepare him- Amen. "The Desire of all nations shall come." 7. AND now with shades of night opprest, Health of the world, the FATHER's word, Why do Thy wheels so long delay? Praise to the SON, Who cometh down, "Behold He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him." 8. Lo! He comes, with clouds descending, Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen. Ev'ry eye shall now behold Him They who set at nought and sold Him, Shall the dread MESSIAH see. Ev'ry island, sea, and mountain, Angels, martyrs, all are there! Yea, Amen, let all adore Thee, Claim the kingdoms for Thine own! "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat upon it." 9. GREAT GOD! what do I see and hear? The trumpet sounds! the graves restore The dead in CHRIST are first to rise, His Cross, dread sign, in heav'n appears; The trumpet sounds! the graves restore My Judge, O grant me to ascend "He that is least in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he." 10. WHEN CHRIST the LORD would come on earth, His messenger before Him went; The greatest born of mortal birth, And charg'd with words of deep intent. The least of all that here attend Hath honour greater far than he The GOD Whom Heaven and earth adore, Is now, and shall be evermore. The following Anthems are to be used at Evening Prayer after the Third Collect. O WISDOM, Which camest out of the mouth of the Most High, reaching from one end to another, mightily and sweetly ordering all things; Come and teach us the way of understanding. O LORD and Ruler of the house of Israel, Who appearedst to Moses in a flame of fire in the bush, and gavest him the law in Sinai; Come and deliver us with an outstretched arm. O Root of Jesse, Which standest for an ensign of the people, at Whom the kings shall shut their mouths, Thou to Whom the Gentiles shall seek ; Come and deliver us now, tarry not. 10 14. Dec. 19. O KEY of David, and Sceptre of the house of Israel, Thou that openest and no man shutteth, and shuttest and no man openeth; Come and bring the prisoner out of the prison-house, and him that sitteth in darkness and in the shadow of death. O ORIENT Brightness of the Everlasting Light, and Sun of Righteousness; Come and enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. O KING and Desire of all nations, Thou Cornerstone, Who hast made both one; Come and save man, whom Thou formedst from the clay. O EMMANUEL, our King and Lawgiver, Hope of the Gentiles, and their SAVIOUR; Come and save us, O LORD our GOD. Christmas. "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass." 18. YE faithful, approach ye, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; O come, let us adore Him, CHRIST the LORD. |