And call thee by the Holy Ghost,
The Lord our Righteousness.
2 God over all Immanuel reigns,
With his great Father one:
The brightness of his glory thou,
And partner of his throne.
3 Sceptre of Israel, Prince of peace,
Immortal King of kings;
The Sun of Righteousness, that shines With healing in his wings.
4 The gift of God to fallen man,
The Lord of quick and dead:
A well of life to fainting souls,
And their sustaining bread.
5 Foundation of thy people's joy,
Their pardon and their rest:
On earth our sacrifice for sin,
In heaven our great High Priest.
WE'LL speak thy honours, gracious
Thy form divinely fair;
None of the sons of mortal race
May with the Lord compare.
2 Sweet is thy speech, and heavenly grace Upon thy lips is shed;
Thy God with blessings infinite
Hath crowned thy sacred head.
3 Gird on thy sword, victorious Prince, Ride with majestic sway;
Thy terror shall strike through thy foes
And make the world obey.
4 Thy throne, O God, for ever stands,
Thy word of grace shall prove
A peaceful sceptre in thy hands,
To rule thy saints by love.
5 Justice and truth attend thee still;
But mercy is thy choice;
And God, thy God, thy soul shall fill,
With most peculiar joys.
ESUS in thee our souls delight,
What matchless beauties glad the
sight;
Compared with thee, the radiant sun
Of light and splendour, it hath none.
2 Thou art our rock, and refuge too,
Our hiding-place when foes pursue;
Our sun, our shield, and fortress strong,
Our sweetest note in every song.
3 Thou art the prize to which we press, Our wisdom and our righteousness: Our surety who our debt did pay, Our light, and life, and love, and way. 4 Our Advocate before the throne,
Our solid base, our corner-stone;
Our anchor sure, when storms arise, Our bread descending from the skies: 5 Our ransom thou when Adam's fall, In guilt and ruin deluged all; Our fountain opened wide for sin, Wherein from every stain we're clean.
with us! O glorious name!
Let it shine in endless fame:
God and man in Christ unite;
O mysterious depth and height!
2 God with us! the eternal Son
Took our souls, our flesh, and bone;
Now, ye saints, his grace admire.
Swell the song with holy fire.
3 God with us! but tainted not
With the first transgressor's blot;
Yet did he our sins sustain,
Bear the guilt, the curse, the pain.
4 God with us! O wondrous grace!
Let us see him face to face;
That we may Immanuel sing,
As we ought, our God and King.
LL hail, thou great Immanuel!
Thy love, thy glory, who can tell?
Angels, and all the heavenly host,
Are in the boundless prospect lost.
2 Mortals, with reverential songs,
Take this dear name upon your tongues;
With holy fear, attempt his praise,
In solemn, yet triumphant, lays.
3 Among a thousand forms of love,
In which he shines and smiles above,
This with peculiar joy we view,
He's David's root and offspring too.
4 There Jesus, in the glorious plan, Shines, the great God, the wondrous Man! As God, the root of all our bliss,
As man, the branch of righteousness. 5 All hail, thou dear redeeming Lord! All hail, thou co-essential Word! All hail, thou Root and Branch divine! All hail and be the glory thine!
MMANUEL, on thy glorious name
How shall weak mortals call?
The prophets' praise, the seraphs' theme,
God blessed over all!
Whose throne has everlasting might,
Whose sceptre is the staff of right!
2 But thou art God our Saviour too,
The only just and wise;
Made manifest to mortal view
That men through thee might rise.
To tell thy sinless hosts above,
The wonders of redeeming love.
3 Great is the mystery indeed
That to our faith is given;
But what on earth we darkly read,
Will be made clear in heaven;
And thou revealed, believed in thus,
Shall be for ever, "God with us."
Spread thy boundless love abroad: Counsellor, the Prince of peace, Fill the world with truth and grace.
2 Sun of Righteousness, arise;
Send thy light around the skies:
Life of all the quick and dead,
Feed our souls with living bread.
3 Leader of the halt and blind.
Raise to life the sinking mind:
Binder of the broken heart,
Grace to every soul impart.
4 Opener of the sealed book,
Cause the world therein to look:
Taker of the veil away,
Lead us to eternal day.
LORD, be our Shepherd in thy love,
And keep us safe from sin,
That to the blessed fields above
Our steps may enter in!
The fields where all thy flock shall meet,
The righteous and the wise;
And there shall be no weary feet,
And come no weeping eyes.
2 Though poor and feeble be our faith,
We know thine arm is strong;
For thou hast loved us even to death,
And thou hast sought us long.
Lord! let us early seek thee too,
And, from thine holy hill,
Life's many snares and perils through
Be thou our Shepherd still.
GRACIOUS Shepherd! bind us
With cords of love to thee,
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