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III. Christ Incarnate.
III.—Christ

"And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made, being of one Substance with the Father, by Whom all things were made:

"Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from Heaven, and was Incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man."

Dorchester.

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JOHN WAINWRIGHT, Mus. Doc.

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4 To Bethlehem straight th' enlighten'd shepherds ran,
To see the Wonder God had wrought for man;
And found, with Joseph and the Blessed Maid,
Her Son, the Saviour, in a manger laid.
Amazed, the wondrous story they proclaim,
The first apostles of His infant fame.

5 Let us, like these good shepherds, then employ
Our grateful voices to proclaim the joy:
Trace we the Babe, Who has retrieved our loss,
From His poor manger to His bitter Cross,
Treading His steps, assisted by His grace,
Till man's first heavenly state again takes place.

6 Then may we hope, th' angelic thrones among,
To sing, redeemed, a glad triumphal song:
He that was born upon this joyful day
Around us all His glory shall display:
Saved by His love, incessant we shall sing
Of angels, and of angel-men, the King.

John Byrom, 1773.

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Herr Jesu Christ war Mensch und Gott.

Ulenberg Psalter, 1582.

1 'TIST time eternal love forecast:

come, the time so oft foretold,

Four thousand years of hope have rolled,

And God hath sent His Son at last; Let heaven, let earth, adore the plan; Glory to God, and grace to man!

2 To swains that watch'd their nightly fold,

Of lowly lot, of lowly mind, To these the tidings first were told, That told of hope for lost mankind; God gives His Son; no more He can, Glory to God, and grace to man!

8 And well to shepherds first 'tis known, The Lord of angels comes from high, In humblest aspect like their own, Good Shepherd, for His sheep to die: O height and depth, which who shall span?

Glory to God, and grace to man!

4 Fain with those meek, those happy swains,

Lord, I would hear that angel quire: Till, ravished by celestial strains,

My heart responds with holy fire; (That holy fire Thy breath must fan;) Glory to God, and grace to man!

Thomas Grinfield, 1836.

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