4 The terrors of that awful day,
O, who shall understand?
Or, who abide,when Thou in wrath
Shalt lift Thy Holy hand?

The earth shall quake, the sea shall roar,
The sun in heaven grow pale;

But Thou hast sworn, and wilt not change,
Thy faithful wilt not fail.

5 Then grant us, Saviour, so to pass
Our time in trembling here,

That when, upon the clouds of heaven,
Thy glory shall appear,
Uplifting high our joyful heads

In triumph we may rise,

And enter, with Thine angel-train,
Thy temple in the skies.

L.M.

[JOHN RYLAND.]

227 Made in the likeness of men.—Phil. ii. 7.

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HOU Son of God and Son of Man,
Beloved, adored Immanuel!

TH

Who didst, before all time began,
In glory with Thy Father dwell;

2 We sing Thy love, who didst in time
For us humanity assume,
To answer for the sinner's crime,
To suffer in the sinner's room.

3 The ransomed Church Thy glory sings,
The hosts of heaven Thy will obey;
And, Lord of Lords and King of Kings,
We celebrate Thy blessed sway.

4 A servant's form Thou didst sustain, And with delight the law obey; Thou didst endure amazing pain,

While all our sorrows on Thee lay.

5 Blest Saviour, we are wholly Thine,
So freely loved, so dearly bought ;
Our souls to Thee would we resign,
To Thee subject our every thought.

L.M.

NEWTON.

228 He took not on Him the nature of angels.

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Hebrews ii. 16.

OW let us join with hearts and tongues,
And emulate the angels' songs;

Now

Yea, sinners may address their King

In songs that angels cannot sing.

2 They praise the Lamb who once was slain
But we can add a higher strain ;
Not only say, He suffered thus,
But that He suffered all for us.

3 Jesus, who passed the angels by,
Assumed our flesh to bleed and die;
And still He makes it His abode;
As man He fills the throne of God.

4 Our next of kin, our brother now,
Is He to whom the angels bow;
They join with us to praise His name,
But we the nearest interest claim.

5 But, ah! how faint our praises rise!
Sure 'tis the wonder of the skies,
That we, who share His richest love,
So cold and unconcerned should prove.

6 O, glorious hour, it comes with speed!
When we, from sin and darkness freed,
Shall see the God who died for man,
And praise Him more than angels can!

229

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C.M.

[ANSTICE.]

Made like unto His brethren.-Hebrews ii. 17.

N all things like Thy brethren Thou
Wast made, yet free from sin;
But how unlike to us, O Lord!
Replies the voice within.

2 O Son of Man, Thyself hast proved
Our trials and our tears;
Life's thankless toil and scant repose,
Death's agonies and fears.

3 O Son of God, in glory raised,
Thou sittest on Thy throne,

Thence, by Thy pleadings and Thy grace,
Still succouring Thine own.

4 Brother and Saviour, Friend and Judge,
To Thee, O Christ, be given
To bind upon Thy crown the names
Elect in earth and heaven.

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST:

HIS ADVENT AND BIRTH.

(WITH SPECIAL HYMNS FOR CHRISTMAS DAY.)

230

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JOY

C.M.

Psalm xcviii.

OY to the world! the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King,
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing.

2 Joy to the earth! the Saviour reigns!
Let men their songs employ,

WATTS.

While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,

Repeat the sounding joy.

3 No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;

He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove

The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love.

CHARLES WESLEY.*

231 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth

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peace.-Luke ii. 14.

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

2 Joyful all ye nations rise;
Join the triumph of the skies;
With the angelic host proclaim,
Christ is born in Bethlehem.

3 Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
Late in time behold Him come,
Offspring of a virgin's womb.

4 Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the incarnate Deity!

Pleased as man with men to dwell,
Jesus our Immanuel.

5 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.

6 Lo! 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.

7 Sing we, then, with angels sing,
Glory to the new born King;
Glory in the highest heaven;
Peace on earth, and man forgiven.