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O little town of Bethlehem

Author: Phillips Brooks Appears in 882 hymnals Topics: Christ, the Son of God Incarnation and Birth Used With Tune: ST. LOUIS

While Shepherds Watched their Flocks

Author: Nahum Tate Appears in 1,132 hymnals Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ His Incarnation First Line: While shepherds watch’d their flocks by night Scripture: Luke 2:11 Used With Tune: WINCHESTER OLD

Brightest and Best

Author: Reginald Heber Appears in 925 hymnals Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ His Incarnation First Line: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning Scripture: Matthew 2:2 Used With Tune: EPIPHANY HYMN

It came upon the midnight clear

Author: E. H. Sears (1810-1876) Appears in 910 hymnals Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Used With Tune: NOEL

Once in royal David’s city

Author: Cecil F. Alexander (1818-1895) Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 422 hymnals Topics: God, Saviour Promised and Incarnate; Christmas 1 The Incarnation Lyrics: 1 Once in royal David’s city stood a lowly cattle shed, where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed: Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ, her little child. 2 He came down to earth from heaven who is God and Lord of all; and his shelter was a stable, and his cradle was a stall: with the poor and meek and lowly lived on earth our saviour holy. 3 And through all his wondrous childhood he would honour and obey, love and watch the gentle mother in whose tender arms he lay: Christian children all should be kind, obedient,good as he. 4 For he is our childhood’s pattern: day by day like us he grew; he was little, weak and helpless; tears and smiles like us he knew: and he feels for all our sadness, and he shares in all our gladness. 5 And our eyes at last shall see him, through his own redeeming love; for that child, so dear and gentle, is our Lord in heaven above: and he leads his children on to the place where he has gone. 6 Not in that poor lowly stable with the oxen standing by, we shall see him, but in heaven, set at God’s right hand on high; there his children gather round, bright like stars, with glory crowned. Used With Tune: IRBY

Come and worship Christ the newborn king

Author: J. Montgomery (1771-1854) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 784 hymnals Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation First Line: Angels from the realms of glory Used With Tune: IRIS

Joy to the World!

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 with repeat Appears in 1,911 hymnals Topics: Jesus Christ Incarnation; The Incarnation First Line: Joy to the world! the Lord is come Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come: let earth receive her King. Let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns: let all their songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sin and sorrow grow nor thorns infest the ground; he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found. 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love. Scripture: Psalm 98 Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

Take my life and let it be

Author: Frances R. Havergal (1836-1879) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,254 hymnals Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Used With Tune: NOTTINGHAM

Praise to the Holiest in the height

Author: J. H. Newman (1801-1890) Appears in 176 hymnals Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Lyrics: 1 Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise; in all his words most wonderful, most sure in all his ways! 2 O loving wisdom of our God! when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came. 3 O wisest love! that flesh and blood, which did in Adam fail, should strive afresh against the foe, should strive and should prevail; 4 And that the highest gift of grace should flesh and blood refine: God's presence and his very self, and essence all-divine. 5 O generous love! that he who came as man to smite our foe, the double agony for us as man should undergo: 6 And in the garden secretly, and on the cross on high, should teach his brethren, and inspire to suffer and to die. 7 Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise; in all his words most wonderful, most sure in all his ways! Used With Tune: CHORUS ANGELORUM

God of God, the uncreated

Author: Prudentius (348-c.413); J. M. Neale (1818-1866); H. W. Baker (1821-1877) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 224 hymnals Topics: God, Saviour Promised and Incarnate; Christmas 1 The Incarnation Used With Tune: CORDE NATUS