16.

ANGELS, from the realms of glory

Wing your flight o'er all the earth! You who sang creation's story Now proclaim Messiah's birth! Come, and worship;

Worship Christ, the new-born King!

Shepherds, in the field abiding,

Watching o'er your flocks by night!
God with man is now residing,
Yonder shines the Infant-light.
Come, and worship;

Worship Christ, the new-born King!

Saints, before the altar bending,

Watching long in hope and fear!
Suddenly the Lord, descending,
In His temple shall appear:
Come, and worship;
Worship Christ, the new-born King!

Sinners, wrung with true repentance,

Doom'd for guilt to endless pains,
Justice now revokes the sentence,

Mercy calls you-break your chains!
Come, and worship;
Worship Christ, the new-born King.

17.

NOW let our mingling voices rise

In grateful rapture to the skies, And hail a Saviour's birth; Let songs of joy the day proclaim, When JESUS from His glory came

To bless the sons of earth.

He came to bid the weary rest,
To heal the sinner's wounded breast,

To bind the broken heart;

To spread the light of truth around, And to the world's remotest bound The heavenly gift impart.

He came our trembling souls to save From sin, from sorrow, and the grave,

And chase our fears away; Victorious over death and time, To lead us to a happier clime, Where reigns eternal day.

As printed (for the 23rd Psalm) in "Ten Church Pieces for the Organ, with four Anthems, for the use of Nayland Church, in Suffolk; and published for its benefit by William Jones, M.A., F.R.S., author of a Treatise on the Art of Music, &c., Opera II." With a Dedication to Lady Rushout, dated "Nayland, March 25, 1789."