Scriptural narratives of those passages in Our Blessed Lord's life and ministry, which are subjects of annual commemoration in the church preceded by preliminary notices of the days on which they are commemorated, and followed by reflexions and collects: adapted to the greater holydays of the United Church of England and Ireland; and designed, together with biographical notices of the apostles, evangelists, and other saints, to form a course of reading on all the holydays of the church. By Richard Mant |
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THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST.
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Jesus! for o'er every name
Thine preeminence may claim;
Jesus! Saviour! for to thee
All creation bows the knee:
Mortal and immortal birth,
Things in heav'n, and things on earth;
Nor can dens of deepest night
Bar thy hand, or shun thy sight!
Lo! thy sheltering arm we crave;
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
Thine preeminence may claim;
Jesus! Saviour! for to thee
All creation bows the knee:
Mortal and immortal birth,
Things in heav'n, and things on earth;
Nor can dens of deepest night
Bar thy hand, or shun thy sight!
Lo! thy sheltering arm we crave;
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
From the ills and woes that wait
On our frail and feeble state;
From the inborn taint of sin,
Rankling deep the soul within;
From the tempter's subtle skill,
Baffled, but returning still;
From thy wrath's resistless storm;
From the never-dying worm;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
On our frail and feeble state;
From the inborn taint of sin,
Rankling deep the soul within;
From the tempter's subtle skill,
Baffled, but returning still;
From thy wrath's resistless storm;
From the never-dying worm;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
From a heart perverse and blind;
From a dark dissembling mind;
From a soul, where passions reign,
Lofty pride, self-flattery vain,
Hate and malice fierce and fell,
“Envy making heaven a hell,”
Deeds with hard unkindness fraught,
Angry word, ungentle thought;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave;
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
From a dark dissembling mind;
From a soul, where passions reign,
Lofty pride, self-flattery vain,
Hate and malice fierce and fell,
“Envy making heaven a hell,”
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Angry word, ungentle thought;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave;
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
From the works of night and shame;
From the guilt, whate'er its name,
Which thy threaten'd vengeance dares;
From the world's insidious snares,
Treacherous all, tho' fair to see;
From the world's arch-deity;
From our evil lusts combin'd
Still the better sense to blind;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave;
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
From the guilt, whate'er its name,
Which thy threaten'd vengeance dares;
From the world's insidious snares,
Treacherous all, tho' fair to see;
From the world's arch-deity;
From our evil lusts combin'd
Still the better sense to blind;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave;
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
From the howling tempest's force;
From the lightning's thrilling course;
From the air's malignant breath,
Charg'd with famine, plague, and death;
From the battle's bloody strife;
From the dark assassin's knife;
From the death of direst mien,
Unprepar'd for, unforeseen;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
From the lightning's thrilling course;
From the air's malignant breath,
Charg'd with famine, plague, and death;
From the battle's bloody strife;
From the dark assassin's knife;
From the death of direst mien,
Unprepar'd for, unforeseen;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
From rebellion, blood-defil'd;
Secret plot, and outrage wild;
From the ills, thy truth that mar,
Factious broil, intestine jar,
Heresy with specious tone;
From the scorner's heart of stone,
Eyes, the light that will not see,
Lips, that mock thy word and thee;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
Secret plot, and outrage wild;
From the ills, thy truth that mar,
Factious broil, intestine jar,
Heresy with specious tone;
From the scorner's heart of stone,
Eyes, the light that will not see,
Lips, that mock thy word and thee;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
In the time of dark distress,
When we feel the tempest press;
When the cheerful sun we feel,
In the tempting time of weal;
In the solemn hour of death,
When to thee we yield our breath;
When for thee we burst the tomb,
In the fearful day of doom;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
When we feel the tempest press;
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In the tempting time of weal;
In the solemn hour of death,
When to thee we yield our breath;
When for thee we burst the tomb,
In the fearful day of doom;
Thy deliverance, Lord, we crave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
Jesus! for o'er every name
Thine preeminence may claim:
Jesus! Saviour! for to thee
All creation bows the knee,
By the Father charg'd to own
Thee his lov'd, his honour'd Son:
Thou for us hast shed thy blood;
Thou the pow'rs of hell withstood;
Thou hast triumph'd o'er the grave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
Thine preeminence may claim:
Jesus! Saviour! for to thee
All creation bows the knee,
By the Father charg'd to own
Thee his lov'd, his honour'd Son:
Thou for us hast shed thy blood;
Thou the pow'rs of hell withstood;
Thou hast triumph'd o'er the grave:
Hear us, Saviour, hear and save!
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