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Come ye faithful raise the anthem
Cleave the skies with shouts of praise
Sing to Him who found the ransom
Ancient of eternal days
God eternal Word incarnate
Whom the heaven of heaven obeys
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Ere He raised the lofty mountains
Formed the sea or built the sky
Love eternal free and boundless
Forced the Lord of life to die
Lifted up...
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1) Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,
and make our hearts your place of rest;
come with your grace and heav'nly aid,
and fill the hearts which you have made.
2) To you, the Counselor, we cry,
to you, the gift of God most high,
the fount of life, the fire of love,
the soul's anointing from above.
3) In you, with graces...
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Come Holy Ghost our souls inspire
And lighten with celestial fire
Thou the anointing Spirit art
Who dost Thy sevenfold gifts impart
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1) Come, let us join our cheerful songs
with angels round the throne;
ten thousand thousand are their tongues,
but all their joys are one.
2) "Worthy the Lamb that died", they cry,
"to be exalted thus";
"Worthy the Lamb", our lips reply,
"for he was slain for us."
3) Jesus is worthy to receive
honour and power divine;
and blessings,...
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1) Come let us sing of a wonderful love,
tender and true;
out of the heart of the Father above,
streaming to me and to you:
wonderful love
dwells in the heart of the Father above.
2) Jesus, the Saviour, this gospel to tell,
joyfully came;
came with the helpless and hopeless to dwell,
sharing their sorrow and shame;
seeking the...
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1) Come, O come, life-giving Spirit,
God from all eternity!
May your power never fail us;
dwell within us constantly.
Then shall truth and life and light
banish all the gloom of night.
2) Show us, Lord, the path of blessing;
when we trespass on our way,
cast, O Lord, our sins behind you
and be with us day by day.
Should we stray, O...
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1) Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
mount of God's redeeming love.
2) Here I find my greatest treasure;
hither by thy help...
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1) Come, thou long expected Jesus,
born to set thy people free;
from our fears and sins release us,
let us find our rest in thee.
2) Israel's strength and consolation,
hope of all the earth thou art;
dear desire of every nation,
joy of every longing heart.
3) Born thy people to deliver,
born a child and yet a King,
born to reign...
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1) Come, thou Redeemer of the earth,
and manifest thy virgin-birth:
let every age adoring fall;
such birth befits the God of all.2) Begotten of no human will,
but of the Spirit, thou art still
the Word of God, in flesh arrayed,
the Saviour, now to us displayed.3) From God the Father he proceeds,
to God the Father back he speeds,
runs out...
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1) Come, ye thankful people, come,
raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in,
ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide
for our wants to be supplied;
come to God's own temple, come,
raise the song of harvest home.
2) All the world is God's own field,
fruit as praise to God we yield;
wheat and...
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