From Heaven Above, Covenant Reformed Baptist Church 2014

From heaven above to earth I come, to bear good news to every home.

Glad tidings of great joy I bring, whereof

I now will say and sing. This night is born a child of Mary, chosen virgin mild.

This little child of lowly birth shall be the joy of all the earth.

This is the Christ, our God most high, who hears your sad and bitter cry.

He will himself your Saviour be, from all your sins to set you free.

He will on you the gifts bestow, prepared by God for all below, that in his kingdom bright and fair you may with us his glory share.

These are the signs that you shall mark, the swaddling clothes and manger dark.

There you will find the infant laid, by whom the heavens and earth were made.

It will be to find it so, then with the shepherds let us go, to see what

God for us has done, in sending us his own dear

Son. Then lift up your eyes, and see what in the manger lies.

Who is this child so young and fair? The blessed

Christ child lieth there. Welcome to earth,

O noble guest, through whom the sinful world is blest.

You came to share my misery, that you might share your joy with me.

O Lord, thou who created all, how weak art thou, how poor and small, that you should choose to lay your head where humble cattle lately fare.

A thousand times as fair, beset with gold and jewels rare, it would be far too poor and small a cradle for the

Lord of all. Instead of soft and silk and staff, you have bought hay and straw so rough, on which is king so rich and great to be enthroned in royal state.

And so it pleases you to see this simple truth revealed to me, that worldly honor, wealth, and might are weak and worthless in your sight.

O dearest Jesus, holy Child, prepare a bed soft and defile, a quiet chamber set apart for you to dwell within my heart.

My heart, for merry joy doth beat, my lips no more can silence keep.

I too must sing with joyful tongue the sweetest ancient cradle song.

Glory to God in highest, our sweet song has been.

Our angels sing with highest worth, a glad new year to all ye old.