The Advent of Our God

For Advent at Nocturn

Words: Instantis adventum Dei, Charles Coffin, Paris Breviary, 1736
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Translator: John Chandler

Music: "Doncaster," Samuel Wesley (1766-1837)
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Alternate tunes: "Franconia," König’s Choralbuch, 1738;
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"St. Thomas," Aaron Williams, The New Universal Psalmodist, 1770
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Music: Thomas Helmore and Thomas Morley, eds., Music of the Appendix to the Hymnal Noted. (Novello, Ewer & Co., No Date, ca. 1870), #119, p. 128.
Meter: S.M.-6686

Source: Rev. John Chandler, The Hymns of the Primitive Church (London: John W. Parker, 1837), Number 36, pp. 39-40.

1. The Advent of our God
Our prayers must now employ,
And we must meet him on his road
With hymns of holy joy.

2. The everlasting Son
Incarnate soon shall be :
He will a servant's form put on,
To make his people free.

3. Daughter of Zion, rise
And greet thy lowly King,
And do not wickedly despise
The mercies he will bring.

4. As Judge, in clouds of light,
He will come down again,
And all his scattered saints unite
With Him in Heaven to reign.

5. Before that dreadful day
May all our sin be gone ;
May the old man be put away,
And the new man put on!

6. Praise to the Saviour Son
From all the angel Host:
Like praise be to the Father done,
And to the Holy Ghost.

Also found in John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore, eds., The Hymnal Noted With Appendix, Revised and Greatly Enlarged, and Supplement. Tenth Edition. (London: J. Masters & Co., 1889), #119, p. 128, with the following differences:

• St. 2, L. 2. "A Virgin's Child must be:"

• St. 2. L. 4. "To set His people free."

• St. 3. L. 3 & 4.
  And do not faithlessly despise.
  The peace He deigns to bring.

• St. 4. L. 3. "And take His Body left below,"

• St. 5.
  Before that dawning day,
  May deeds of night be gone!
  The old man all be put away.
  The new man all put on!

• St. 6.
  Let endless praise be done
  To God, the Father blest,
  To Spirit, and eternal on,
  In Flesh made manifest. Amen.

Sheet Music from Thomas Helmore and Thomas Morley, eds., Music of the Appendix to the Hymnal Noted. (Novello, Ewer & Co., No Date, ca. 1870), Tune #119, p. 128.

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