Redemption.

REDEMPTION.

Redemption claims our highest lays,
To Jesus Christ belongs the praise;
The lofty theme should fire the soul,
And music's richest numbers roll.

Our blest Redeemer is the God we own,
Then swell the chorus to His name alone.

Unseen, unknown, and unreveal'd,*
No creature's eye our God beheld,
Till He the wond'rous work begun,

And show'd the Father in the Son ;†
Jehovah now as Jesus Christ is known,
Then swell the chorus to His name alone.

* No man hath seen God at any time. John i. 18.

Dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see. Tim. vi. 16.

Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me, and live. Exodus xxxiii. 20. ̋

Philip saith unto Jesus, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known ME, Philip? He that hath seen ME, hath seen the Father; and sayest thou then show us the Father? I am in the Father and the Father in ME. John xiv. 8, 9, 10, 11.

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Redemption.

From heaven His pitying eye survey'd*
The ruin sin on earth had made;

He saw His creatures run the road
Which led from happiness and God;

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and saved the work was all His own, Then swell the chorus to His name alone.

Swift from supernal realms of day,
Seraphic minstrels wing'd their way,
To hail the great Redeemer's birth,
And publish peace to men on earth:
"To God give glory"-sung the joyous throng,
Let men and angels still repeat the song.

Alas! no human accents can

Express the love of God to man ;

Who, to redeem a sinful worm,

Assumed the human mind and form;

Was born a man, that man might be re-born!
Then let us praise Him on His natal morn.

* The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Psalm xiv. 3, 4.

The Nativity.

THE NATIVITY.

Strike the loud anthem to hail the blest morning,
Jesus the Saviour an infant appears ;

Lo! in the East, a new day-spring is dawning!* Hark! the glad tidings which sound in our ears! On this auspicious morn,

To us a child is born,†

Glory to God in the highest be given;

Hail our Redeemer's birth—

Good will and Peace on earth

Man shall again have conjunction with Heaven.

Hark! 'twas the voice of a seraph that sounded-
Shepherds of Judea start with surprise,
While, with a radiance of glory surrounded,
Troops of bright angels descend from the skies.
Now loud the choral strain

Swells round the happy plain,

Glory to God in the highest be given;
Hail our Redeemer's birth-

Good will and Peace on earth

Man shall again have conjunction with Heaven.

*The day-spring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78.

+ Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulders; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Isa. ix. 6.

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