Text:On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
Author:Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Tune:PUER NOBIS
Adapter:Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621

14. On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry

1 On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Announces that the Lord is nigh;
Awake and harken, for he brings
Glad tidings of the King of kings!

2 Then cleansed be ev'ry life from sin;
Make straight the way for God within,
And let us all our hearts prepare
For Christ to come and enter there.

3 We hail you as our Savior, Lord,
Our refuge and our great reward;
Without your grace we waste away
Like flow'rs that wither and decay.

4 Stretch forth your hand, our health restore,
And make us rise to fall no more;
Oh, let your face upon us shine
And fill the world with love divine.

5 All praise to you, eternal Son,
Whose advent has our freedom won,
Whom with the Father we adore,
And Holy Spirit, evermore.

Text Information
First Line: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Title: On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry
Author: Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1982
Topic: Advent
Source: Tr. composite
Tune Information
Name: PUER NOBIS
Adapter: Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621
Meter: LM
Key: D Major
Copyright: Arrangement: From the Cowley Carol Book by permission of A. R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., Oxford, England.



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