SION, rise and watch,
Prepare to meet thy king;
Let all within thy walls receive
The peace he comes to bring.
His advent, long foretold,
Shall Satan's power destroy;
Make ready then, and greet his birth
With hymns of holy joy.
The uncreated Word
Incarnate thou shalt see;
In servant's form the Son draws nigh,
To make thy children free.
Now bid them cast away
The sinful works of night,
And, putting heavenly armour on,
Stand clad in robes of light.
With tender, loving care
He Israel shall feed;
Upon his bosom bear the lambs
And those in travail lead.
All glory to thy Name,
One God in Trinity,
As in the ages past, be now,
And everlastingly. Amen.
REATOR kind of day and night,
Of faithful souls eternal light,
Christ our redeemer, Lord of all,
O hear us when on thee we call.
Thou, sorrowing at the helpless cry
Of all creation doomed to die,
Didst heal the languid earth's decay,
And guilty man's despair allay.
The world, with twilight overcast,
To night of death was verging fast,
When lo, thy life restoring beam
In orient chambers bright did gleam.
O Name above all names, to thee
All things that breathe shall bow the knee;
In height, in depth, in earth, in air,
And every tongue thy reign declare.
The sun, who knows his going down,
The moon, of night the pallid crown,
The stars and light, of thee their king
With mystick voice the glory sing.
Thou who shalt come to wake the dead,
And call the world to judgment dread,
Keep us, while life shall last, from ill,
And be our loving Saviour still.
To thee, O Father, thee, O Son,
And thee, O Spirit, Three in One;
The Unity in Trinity,
All praise be everlastingly. Amen.
HOSANNA to the living Lord!
Hosanna to the incarnate Word!
To Christ, our prophet, priest, and king,
Let earth, let heaven, hosanna sing.
Hosanna, Lord: hosanna in the highest!
On thee in Sion's hallowed gate
Our praise and supplications wait:
We, met together in thy Name,
The fulness of thy blessing claim.
Hosanna, Lord: hosanna in the highest!
For ever in our cleansed breast
Let the eternal Spirit rest,
And make our inmost soul to be
A temple pure, and meet for thee.
Hosanna, Lord: hosanna in the highest!
So in the last, the awful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away,
Thy flock, redeemed from sinful stain,
Shall swell the sound of praise again.
Hosanna, Lord: hosanna in the highest!
Amen.
O, he comes, with clouds descending,
Once for guilty sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending
Swell the triumph of his train;
Christ shall take his power
Every eye shall now behold him,
Robed in dreadful majesty :
They who set at nought and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,
Shall the true Mefsiah see.
Still the tokens of his passion
See his dazzling body bear,
Cause of endless exultation
To each ransomed worshipper:
Here our refuge,
And our blissful vision there.
Yea, Amen; let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne;
Saviour, take thy power and glory,
Make thy righteous judgment known:
O come quickly;
Seal for evermore thine own. Amen.
Dee the Son's dread sign returning!
AY of wrath, O day of mourning!
Heaven and earth in ashes burning!
Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth,
Through earth's sepulchres it ringeth:
All before the throne it bringeth.
Lo, the book, exactly worded,
Wherein all has been recorded;
Thence shall judgment be awarded.
King of majesty tremendous,
Who dost free salvation send us,
Fount of pity, then befriend us.
Think, blest Jesus, my salvation
Caused thy wondrous incarnation;
Leave me not to reprobation.
Faint and weary thou hast sought me,
On the crofs of suffering bought me;
Shall such grace be vainly brought me ?
Righteous judge, for sin's pollution
Grant thy gift of absolution,
Ere that day of retribution.
Guilty, now I pour my moaning,
All my shame with anguish owning;
Spare, O Lord, thy suppliant groaning. Amen.
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