ADVENT
This hymn can also be sung to FRANCONIA (No. 370).
C. Coffin, 1676-1749 Tr. H. P.
Instantis adventum Dei.
THE advent of our God
With eager prayers we greet,
And singing haste upon his road
His glorious gift to meet.
2 The everlasting Son
Scorns not a Virgin’s womb;
That we from bondage may be won
He bears a bondsman’s doom.
3 Daughter of Sion, rise
To meet thy lowly king;
Let not thy stubborn heart despise
The peace he deigns to bring.
Unison. 4 In clouds of awful light,
As Judge he comes again,
His scattered people to unite,
With them in heaven to reign.
5 Let evil flee away
Ere that dread hour shall dawn,
Let this old Adam day by day
God’s image still put on.
Unison. 6 Praise to the Incarnate Son,
Who comes to set us free,
With God the Father, ever one,
To all eternity. Amen.
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