Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church ‎#4

4. The Advent of our God

1 The Advent of our God
Our prayers must now employ,
And we must meet Him on His road
With hymns of holy joy.

2 The Everlasting Son
Incarnate deigns to be;
Himself a servant’s form puts on
To set His people free.

3 Daughter of Zion, rise
To meet thy lowly King,
Nor let thy faithless heart despise
The peace He comes to bring.

4 As judge, on clouds of light,
He soon will come again,
And all His scattered saints unite
With Him in heaven to reign.

5 Before the dawning day
Let sin’s dark deeds be gone;
The old man all be put away,
The new man all put on!

6 All glory to the Son,
Who comes to set us free,
With Father, Spirit, ever One,
Through all eternity.

Text Information

• First Line: The Advent of our God
• Author: Charles Coffin (1736)
• Translator: John Chandler (1837, a.)
• Meter: S. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1917
• Topic: The Church Year: Advent

Tune Information

• Name: BETHLEHEM
• Composer: Samuel Wesley (1828)
• Meter: S. M.
• Key: D Major