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The Great God of Heaven
Author: Henry R. Bramley, 1833-1917 Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: The great God of Heaven is come down to earth Refrain First Line: Then let us adore Him, and praise His great love Lyrics: 1. The great God of Heaven is come down to earth,
His mother a virgin, and sinless His birth;
The Father eternal His Father alone:
He sleeps in the manger; He reigns on the throne.
Refrain
Then let us adore Him, and praise His great love:
To save us poor sinners He came from above.
2. A babe on the breast of a maiden He lies,
Yet sits with the Father on high in the skies;
Before Him their faces the seraphim hide,
While Joseph stands waiting, unscared, by His side. [Refrain]
3. Lo! here is Emmanuel, here is the Child,
The Son that was promised to Mary so mild;
Whose power and dominion shall ever increase,
The Prince that shall rule o’er a kingdom of peace. [Refrain]
4. The wonderful Counselor, boundless in might,
The Father’s own image, the beam of His light;
Behold Him now wearing the likeness of man,
Weak, helpless, and speechless, in measure a span. [Refrain]
5. O wonder of wonders, which none can unfold:
The Ancient of Days is an hour or two old;
The Maker of all things is made of the earth,
Man is worshipped by angels, and God comes to birth: [Refrain]
6. The word in the bliss of the Godhead remains,
Yet in flesh comes to suffer the keenest of pains;
He is that He was, and forever shall be,
But becomes that He was not, for you and for me. [Refrain] Used With Tune: A VIRGIN UNSPOTTED
The Great God of Heaven
[The great God of Heaven is come down to earth]
Appears in 6 hymnals Incipit: 11554 33321 23211 Used With Text: The Great God of Heaven
[The great God of Heaven is come down to earth]
A VIRGIN UNSPOTTED
Meter: 11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Shaw, 1875-1958 Tune Sources: English traditional carol Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51355 43123 432 Used With Text: Then let us adore him, and praise his great love
A VIRGIN UNSPOTTED
The great God of heaven is come down to earth
Hymnal: The Children's Hymnal #87 (1881) Languages: English Tune Title: [The great God of heaven is come down to earth]
The great God of heaven is come down to earth
The Great God of Heaven
Hymnal: Christmas Carols New and Old #26 (1871) First Line: The great God of Heaven is come down to earth Refrain First Line: Then let us adore Him, and praise His great love Tune Title: [The great God of Heaven is come down to earth]
The Great God of Heaven
The Great God of Heaven
Hymnal: Christmas Carols New and Old #26 (1878) First Line: The great God of Heaven is come down to earth Refrain First Line: Then let us adore Him, and praise His great love Languages: English Tune Title: [The great God of Heaven is come down to earth]
The Great God of Heaven
Anonymous
Composer of "A VIRGIN UNSPOTTED" in The Cyber Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
Martin Shaw
1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Shaw, 1875-1958 Harmonizer of "A VIRGIN UNSPOTTED" in Common Praise Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music.
Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915).
Bert Polman
Martin Shaw
Henry Ramsden Bramley
1833 - 1917 Person Name: Henry R. Bramley, 1833-1917 Author of "The Great God of Heaven" in The Cyber Hymnal English clergyman, a high-church Anglican. Text editor of Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871 (John Stainer was the music editor), a seminal work in the second period of carol revival. The usual four-part setting of "The First Nowell" appeared in this book. Published a number of translations of hymns and carols from the Latin.
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Bramley, Henry Ramsden, M.A., was born June 4, 1833, at Addingham, near Otley, Yorks, matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, 1852, Scholar of University College 1853, Fellow of Magdalen 1857 (B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859). He was ordained D. 1856, P. 1858, was from 1861 to 1889 Vicar of Horspath, Oxon, and from 1895 to 1901 Canon and Precentor of Lincoln. His hymns and translations appeared principally in his own Christmas Carols (p. 212, ii.) and in the different Lyras edition by Mr. Shipley, generally marked as by " H. R. B." Of these, "The great God of Heaven is come down to earth" (Christmas), p. 212, ii., is in the English Hymnal, 1906. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Henry Ramsden Bramley
