The angels no such love have known
As we, to wake their song.

2 Good-will to sinful men is shewn,
And peace on earth is giv'n;
For lo! th' incarnate Saviour comes,
With messages from heav'n.

3 Justice and grace, with sweet accord, His rising beams adorn:

Let heav'n and earth in concert join, "The promis'd Child is born."

4 Glory to God in highest strains
By highest worlds is paid;
Be glory then by us proclaim'd,
And by our lives display'd.

HYMN X. P. M.

1 ANGELS, from the realms of glory,
Wing your flight o'er all the earth;
Ye, who sang creation's story,
Now proclaim Messiah's birth:
Come and worship,

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

2 Shepherds in the field abiding,

Watching o'er your flock by night, God with man is now residing; Yonder shines the infant light: Come and worship,

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

3 Sages, leave your contemplations,
Brighter visions beam afar;
Seek the great Desire of nations,
Ye have seen his natal star:
Come and worship,

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

4 Saints, before the alter bending,
Waiting long with hope and fear,
Suddenly the Lord, descending,
In his temple shall appear:

Come and worship,

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

5 Sinners, wrung with true repentance,
Doom'd for guilt to endless pains,
Justice now repeals the sentence,
Mercy calls you,-break your chains :
Come and worship,

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

1 My song shall bless the "Lord of All,"
My praise shall climb to his abode:
Thee, Saviour, by that name I call,
The great, supreme, "The Mighty God."

2 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 Fill'd all the morning-stars with joy.

1 WHILE, with ceaseless course, the sun
Hasted through the former year,
Many souls their race have run,
Never more to meet us here:

2 Fix'd in an eternal state,

They have done with all below;
We a little longer wait,

But how little-none can know!

3 As the winged arrow flies,
Speedily the mark to find;
As the light'ning from the skies
Darts and leaves no trace behind;

4 Swiftly thus our fleeting days
Bear us down life's rapid stream:
Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise,
All below is but a dream.

5 Thanks for mercies past receive,
Pardon of our sins renew,

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4 If mercy smile, let mercy bring
Our wandering souls to God:
And in affliction we will sing
If Thou wilt bless the rod.

Epiphany.

HYMN XVI.

P. M.

1 O'ER the realms of pagan darkness,
Let the eye of pity gaze;
See the kindreds of the people,
Lost in sins bewilder'd maze:
Darkness brooding

On the face of all the earth.

2 Light of them that sit in darkness!
Rise and shine, thy blessings bring:
Light, to lighten all the Gentiles!
Rise with healing in thy wing:
To thy brightness

Let all kings and nations come.

3 May the heathen, now adoring
Idol-gods of wood and stone,
Come, and, worshipping before Him,
Serve the living God alone:
Let thy glory.

Fill the earth as floods the sea.

4 Thou, to whom all power is given, Speak the word;-at thy command, Let the company of preachers

Spread thy name from land to land: Lord be with them, Alway, to the end of time.

HYMN XVII. S. M.

1 WITH heart and lips unfeign'd,
We praise Thee for thy word;
We bless Thee for the joyful sound
Of our Redemption, Lord.

2 Like as the kindly rain

Returns not back to heav'n,

But cheers, and fruitful makes the earth, The end for which 'twas giv'n.

3 So let thy holy word

Accomplish thy design;

Sow seeds of truth in ev'ry heart,
And consecrate us thine.

1 By thy birth and early years,
By thy human griefs and fears;
By thy fasting and distress
In the lonely wilderness;