Tune:KIRKEN DEN ER ET GAMMELT HUS (Built on the Rock)
1 Down to the Earth, our God the form,
Of lowly man He thus taketh.
Ezekiel saw Him in the storm,
Now His true glory He veileth.
Still He our God upon the cross,
Was counted as the worth of dross.
There our God, for us, was murdered.
2 Assumed to Him was human flesh,
Upon the Earth Tabernacling,
As in the desert of Kadesh.
In virgin birth He descending,
To give His Bride His gifts of Love.
From on the cross held high above,
Outpours His grace and His favor
3 Holy the blesséd Virgin be,
Venr’ated the theotokos.
Blesséd most wondr’sly that she
Gave birth to the Divine Logos.
Oh this great mystery shall be told,
In this day young from days of old,
Christ our dear God thus is human.
4 In Christ two persons there is not,
But two true natures are dwelling.
Divine and man in Him was brought,
To bloodied cross, our sins quelling.
There did our God, our Lord thus die,
Christ, man and God, to heaven high,
Rose from the dead and ascended.
5 Now unto us our God and Lord
Descends, His Supper preparing.
His body, blood, in with His Word,
He feeds His sheep through this sharing.
He truly present as a man,
In realms of Earth and Heaven's land.
He is two natures forever.
6 The catholic Church doth teach this true,
Who e’re doth keep it not wholly,
And undefiled will surely hew,
His lot in Christ’s book most holy.
For in no other we believe,
But firmly to our God we cleave.
Receive, Lord Jesus, our Amen.
Author: Isaiah H. Gill, 2005
Composer: Ludvig M. Lindeman, 1812-87
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