The solemn hour is come

Verse 1
The solemn hour is come
For God made visible,
Fruit of a virgin’s womb
A man with men to dwell,
The Saviour of the world t’ appear,
And found his heavenly kingdom here.

Verse 2
The sinner’s Sacrifice,
The Head of angels see
From Jesse’s stem arise,
And grasp the Deity!
His sacred flesh the only shrine
That holds Immensity Divine.

Verse 3
Let all mankind abase
Their souls before the Lord,
And humbly prostrate praise
The great incarnate Word,
And welcome Jesus from above
With joy, and gratitude, and love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God ... To a virgin.’—[Luke 1,] v. 26, 27.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 257. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 75-76.
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