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Text:The advent of our God
Author:Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Translator:H. Putman, 1861-1935
Tune:ST THOMAS

14. The advent of our God

1 THE advent of our God
With eager prayers we greet,
And singing haste upon the road
His glorious gift to meet.

2 The everlasting Son
Scorns not the Virgin's womb;
That we from bondage may be won
He bears a bondsman's doom.

3 Daughter of Sion, rise
To meet thy lowly King;
Let not thy stubborn heart despise
The peace he comes to bring.

4 On clouds of dazzling light,
As judge he comes again,
His scattered people to unite,
With him in heaven to reign.

5 Let evil flee away,
Ere that great hour shall dawn,
Let this old Adam day by day
The new Man all put on.

6 Praise to the incarnate Son,
Who comes to set us free,
With Father and with Spirit One,
To all eternity. Amen.

Text Information
First Line: The advent of our God
Latin Title: Instantis adventum Dei
Author: Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Translator: H. Putman, 1861-1935 (alt.)
Meter: SM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1986
Notes: Alternate tune FRANCONIA, 341
Tune Information
Name: ST THOMAS
Meter: SM
Key: F Major
Source: A. Williams's New Universal Psalmodist, 1770



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