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The ancient law departs
Author: Abbé Sebastien Besnault Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 45 hymnals Topics: Circumcision Lyrics:
The ancient law departs
And all its terrors cease;
For Jesus makes with faithful hearts
A covenant of peace.
The Light of Light divine,
True Brightness undefiled,
He bears for us the shame of sin,
A holy, spotless Child.
Today the Name is thine,
At which we bend the knee;
They call the Jesus, Child divine!
Our Jesus deign to be.
Amen.
Used With Tune: ST. MICHAEL Text Sources: Tr. Compilers of Hymns Ancient & Modern
The ancient law departs
How beauteous were the marks divine
Author: Arthur Cleveland Coxe Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 209 hymnals Topics: Circumcision Lyrics:
How beauteous were the marks divine
That in thy meekness used to shine;
That lit thy lonely pathway, trod
In wondrous love, O Son of God!
O who like thee, so calm, so bright,
Thou Son of man, thou Light of Light;
O who like thee did ever go
So patient through a world of woe?
O who like thee so humbly bore
The scorn, the scoffs of men before?
So meek, forgiving, Godlike, high,
So glorious in humility!
And all thy life's unchanging years,
A man of sorrows and of tears,
The cross, where all our sins were laid,
Upon thy bending shoulders weighed.
And death, that sets the prisoner free,
Was pang and scoff and scorn to thee;
Yet love through all thy torture glowed,
And mercy with thy life-blood flowed.
O in thy light be mine to go,
Illuming all this way of woe;
And give me ever on the road
To trace thy footsteps, Son of God!
Amen.
Used With Tune: BRESLAU
How beauteous were the marks divine
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
Author: John Newton Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,616 hymnals Topics: The Circumcision Morning Prayer General Used With Tune: ST. PETER
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
O for a thousand tongues to sing
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Appears in 1,730 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Circumcision and Name of Jesus Lyrics: 1 O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer's praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of his grace!
2 My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of thy Name. A-men.
3 Jesus! the Name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease,
'Tis music in the sinner's ears,
'Tis life and health and peace.
4 He breaks the power of cancelled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His Blood can make the foulest clean,
His Blood availed for me.
5 He speaks, and, listening to his voice,
New life the dead receive,
The mournful broken hearts rejoice,
The humble poor believe.
6 Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Saviour come;
And leap, ye lame, for joy.
7 Glory to God, and praise, and love
Be ever, ever given
By saints below and saints above,
The Church in earth and heaven.
Amen.
Used With Tune: DEDHAM
O for a thousand tongues to sing
Of the Father’s love begotten
Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, 348-c. 413; John Mason Neale, 1818-66; Henry Wiliams Baker, 1827-77 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 214 hymnals Topics: Circumcision Lyrics: 1 Of the Father's love begotten
ere the worlds began to be,
he is Alpha and Omega,
he the source, the ending he,
of the things that are, that have been,
and that future years shall see
evermore and evermore.
2 O that birth for ever blessèd,
when the virgin full of grace,
by the Spirit's power conceiving,
bore the saviour of our race,
and the babe, the world's redeemer,
first revealed his sacred face
evermore and evermore.
3 This is he whom seers and sages
sang of old with one accord,
whom the voices of the prophets
promised in their faithful word;
now he shines, the long-expected:
let creation praise its Lord
evermore and evermore.
4 In the heights of heaven adore him,
angel hosts his praises sing,
all dominions bow before him
and extol our God and king;
let no tongue on earth be silent,
every voice together sing
evermore and evermore. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 Used With Tune: CORDE NATUS
Of the Father’s love begotten
We worship thee, we bless thee
Author: Frances Ridley Havergal Appears in 244 hymnals Topics: Saints' Days and Holy Days The Circumcision First Line: O Saviour, precious Saviour Used With Tune: WATERMOUTH
We worship thee, we bless thee
Jesus! the name high over all
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-88 Appears in 299 hymnals Topics: Circumcision Lyrics: 1 Jesus! the name high over all,
in hell, or earth, or sky;
angels and earthlings to it fall,
and devils fear and fly,
and devils fear and fly.
2 Jesus! the name to sinners dear,
the name to sinners given;
it scatters all their guilty fear,
it turns their hell to heaven,
it turns their hell to heaven.
3 Jesus! the prisoner's fetters breaks,
and bruises Satan's head;
power into strengthless souls it speaks,
and life into the dead,
and life into the dead.
4 O that the world might taste and see
the riches of his grace;
the arms of love that compass me
would everyone embrace,
would everyone embrace.
5 Happy, if with my dying breath
I might but gasp his name:
preach him to all, and cry in death:
behold, behold the Lamb,
behold, behold the Lamb!
Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:1-4 Used With Tune: LYDIA
Jesus! the name high over all
O sacred day, when first was poured
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Circumcision of Christ Lyrics: 1 O sacred day, when first was poured
The blood of our redeeming Lord,
O solemn day, when first began
His sufferings for sinful man!
2 Just born into this world of woe,
His blood for man was made to flow;
His future death was thus expressed,
Thus, too, His early love confessed.
3 From heaven descending, to fulfil
The mandates of His Father's will,
E'en now behold the Victim lie,
The Lamb of God prepared to die.
4 Beneath the knife behold the Child,
The innocent, the undefiled:
For captives He the ransom pays,
For lawless man the Law obeys.
5 Lord, circumcise our hearts, we pray,
Our fleshly natures purge away;
Thy name, Thy likeness, may we bear;
O stamp Thy holy image there.
O sacred day, when first was poured
O Blessed Day, when first was poured
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 17 hymnals Topics: Circumcision
O Blessed Day, when first was poured
The year begins with Thee
Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Circumcision of Christ Lyrics: 1 The year begins with Thee,
And Thou begin'st with woe,
To let the world of sinners see
That blood for sin must flow.
2 Thine infant cries, O Lord,
Thy tears upon the breast
Are not enough, the legal sword
Must do its stern behest.
3 Seemeth it strange to me
My own will to deny?
Seemeth it sad, my soul, to Thee
Under the yoke to lie?
4 I look, and hold my peace:
The Giver of all good
E'en from His birth takes no release
From suffering, tears, and blood.
5 That I may reap in love,
Help me to sow in fear:
So life a winter's morn may prove
To a bright endless year.
The year begins with Thee
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