Thursday, December 18, 2008

Let no tongue on earth be silent

Michael Mckinley at IXMarks Church Matters recommends:
...[T]hree songs about the incarnation that I particularly like to use in corporate worship this time of year:
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour
Of The Father's Love Begotten
I'm unfamiliar with the second, but "Of the Father's Love Begotten" has become one of my favorites. Selected verses:
Of the Father’s love begotten, ere the worlds began to be,
He is Alpha and Omega, He the source, the ending He,
Of the things that are, that have been,
And that future years shall see, evermore and evermore!

He is found in human fashion, death and sorrow here to know,
That the race of Adam’s children doomed by law to endless woe,
May not henceforth die and perish
In the dreadful gulf below, evermore and evermore!

O that birth forever blessèd, when the virgin, full of grace,
By the Holy Ghost conceiving, bare the Savior of our race;
And the Babe, the world’s Redeemer,
First revealed His sacred face, evermore and evermore!

O ye heights of heaven adore Him; angel hosts, His praises sing;
Powers, dominions, bow before Him, and extol our God and King!
Let no tongue on earth be silent,
Every voice in concert sing, evermore and evermore!

Christ, to Thee with God the Father, and, O Holy Ghost, to Thee,
Hymn and chant with high thanksgiving, and unwearied praises be:
Honor, glory, and dominion,
And eternal victory, evermore and evermore!
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