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114 HYMNS. [PART V
“ Peace on earth and mercy mild,
“ God and sinners reconcil’d!”
2 Joyful, all ye nations, rise.
Join the triumph of the skies;
With the heav’nly host proclaim,
“ Christ is born in Bethlehem.”
3 Christ, by highest heav’n ador’d,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
Lowly lays his glory by;
Bom for men, for men to die.
4 Hail! thou glorious Prince of peace;
Hail! thou Sun of righteousness;
Ris’n with healing on thy wings,
Light and life thy rising brings.
114.
The same. John. i. 14.
1 A WAKE, awake the sacred song
To our incarnate Lord;
Let ev’ry heart, and ev’ry tongue
Adore th’ eternal Word.
2 That awful Word, that sov’reign Pow’r, 5
By whom the worlds were mane;
(O happy morn! illustrious hour!)
Was once in flesh array’d.
3 Then shone almighty pow’r and love
In all their glorious forms ;
When Jesus left his throne above
To dwell with sinful worms.
4 To dwell with misery below.
The Saviour left the skies;
And sunk to wretchedness and woe.
That worthless man might rise.
5 Adoring angels tun’d their song*
To hail the joyful day;