Hymns

This Is the Truth Sent from Above

Words: A Good Christmas Box, 1847 · Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams · 1847

Verse 1
This is the truth sent from above,
the truth of God, the God of love;
therefore don't turn me from your door,
but hearken all, both rich and poor.

Verse 2
The first thing which I do relate
is that God did man create;
the next thing which to you I'll tell—
woman was made with man to dwell.

Verse 3
Thus we were heirs to endless woes,
till God the Lord did interpose;
and so a promise soon did run that
he would redeem us by his Son.

Verse 4
And at that season of the year
our blest Redeemer did appear;
he here did live, and here did preach,
and many thousands he did teach.

Verse 5
Thus he in love to us behaved,
to show us how we must be saved;
and if you want to know the way,
be pleased to hear what he did say.

Words: A Good Christmas Box, 1847 | Music: English folk melody, harm. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1912, rev. 1919

Genesis 1; Genesis 2; Matthew 1; Luke 2; John 8; John 14; John 15; John 17; Romans 5; Galatians 4

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