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Posted 1 day 10 hours ago
Adam's Likeness now efface,
Stamp thy Image in its Place;
Second Adam from above,
Work it in us by thy Love.
Posted 2 days 10 hours ago
Come, Desire of Nations, come,
Fix in us thy heav'nly Home;
Rise the Woman's conqu'ring Seed,
Bruise in us the Serpent's Head.
Posted 3 days 10 hours ago
Mild he lays his Glory by,
Born that Men no more may die;
Born to raise the sons of Earth,
Born to give them second Birth.
The sixth section reminds us of the Saviour’s temporarily leaving behind his eternal majesty, and then gives us the consequences of this selfless act, which I take in Johannine order:
Posted 3 days 10 hours ago
St Oswald’s Church at Howell in Lincolnshire is a veritable treasure house. It is still lit by candles, which populate large candelabras hanging from the roof. Pointed gothic arches meet rounded, Norman ones, from a previous age. Pious Elizabethan gentry are memorialised on the walls, while in the porch rests a thousand-year-old coffin lid.
Posted 4 days 10 hours ago
Hail the Heav'n-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and Life around he brings,
Ris'n with Healing in his Wings.
Wesley and Whitefield’s beautiful carol leans heavily on the prophet Malachi for its fifth section, the first half of its third verse. Writes the prophet:
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