MHB 748 – COME, and let us sweetly join

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1: COME, and let us sweetly join
Christ to praise in hymns divine;
Give we all, with one accord,
Glory to our common Lord.

2: Hands, and hearts, and voices raise;
Sing as in the ancient days;
Antedate the joys above,
Celebrate the feast of love.

3: Strive we, in affection strive;
Let the purer flame revive,
Such as in the martyrs glowed,
Dying champions for their God.

4: We, like them, may live and love;
Called we are their joys to prove,
Saved with them from future wrath,
Partners of like precious faith.

5: Sing we then in Jesu’s name,
Now as yesterday the same;
One in every time and place,
Full for all of truth and grace.

6: We for Christ, our Master, stand,
Lights in a benighted land:
We our dying Lord confess;
We are Jesu’s witnesses.

7: Witnesses that Christ hath died,
We with Him are crucified;
Christ hath burst the bands of death,

8: We his quickening Spirit breathe.
Christ is now gone up on high,
Thither all our wishes fly;
Sits at God’s right hand above,
There with him we reign in love.