300. On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry

1 On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
announces that the Lord is nigh;
awake and hearken, for he brings
glad tidings of the King of kings!

2 Then cleansed be every life from sin;
make straight the way for God within,
and let us all our hearts prepare
for Christ to come and enter there.

3 We hail You as our Saviour, Lord,
our refuge, and our great reward;
O let Your face upon us shine
and fill the world with love divine.

4 All praise to You, eternal Son,
whose advent has our freedom won,
whom with the Father we adore,
and Holy Spirit, evermore. Amen.

Text Information
First Line: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Author: Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Translator: John Chandler, 1806-1876
Meter: LM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2004
Topic: Christ Promised: His First Advent
Notes: Other translators also
Tune Information
Name: WINCHESTER NEW (CRASSELIUS)
Arranger: William Henry Havergal, 1793-1870
Meter: LM
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Adapted from a chorale in Georg Wittwe's Musikalisches Hand-Buch, Hamburg, 1690



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