Text:On Jordan's Banks the Baptist's Cry
Author:Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Tune:PUER NOBIS
Composer:Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), adapt.

267. On Jordan's Banks 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;
O 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 banks the Baptist's cry
Title: On Jordan's Banks the Baptist's Cry
Author: Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Language: English
Publication Date: 1995
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Advent; Christ--Redeemer; Christian year--Advent (3 more...)
Tune Information
Name: PUER NOBIS
Composer: Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), adapt.
Meter: L.M.
Key: D Major
Copyright: Setting © 1959 by A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., an imprint of Cassell PLC.



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