LYRICS
| Meter: | 10 10 10 10 10 10
| Writer(s): | Cosmas the Melodist
| Transl/Adapt: | John Mason Neale
| Dates: | 8 cent,1862
| Bible Refs: | Mt 12:41
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MUSIC
| Name: | YORKSHIRE
| | Meter: | 10 10 10 10 10 10
| | Writer(s): | John Wainwright
| | Dates: | 1750
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Hymns of Faith
| 146
| Bb
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 93
| C
| Songs of Fellowship 1
| 59
| C
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 96
| C
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 120
| C
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| 1. As Jonah, issuing from
his three days’ tomb,
At length was cast,
uninjured, on the earth;
So, from the virgin’s
unpolluted womb
Th’incarnate Word,
That dwelt there, had His birth:
For He, Who knew
no taint of mortal stain,
Willed that His mother
spotless should remain.
2. Christ comes, incarnate God,
amongst us now,
Begotten of the Father ere the day:
And He, to Whom
the sinless legions bow,
Lies cradled, ’midst
unconscious beasts on hay:
And, by His homely
swaddling-bands girt in,
Looses the many fetters of our sin.
3. Now the new Child of Adam’s
race draws nigh,
To us, the faithful, giv’n: This,
this is He
That shall the Father of eternity,
The Angel of the Mighty Counsel, be:
This the eternal God,
by Whose strong hands
The fabric of the world
supported stands.
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