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Charles Wesley wrote more than 6,500 hymns and is the author of one of our most famous Christmas carols, "Hark the Herald, Angels Sing." Wesley wrote this carol when there was a great need for Christmas carols in England. In 1627 The English Puritan parliament had abolished Christmas and the hymns that pertained to that "worldly festival." The church was left with a void of Christmas hymns and Wesley wrote this hymn in 1738. This hymn not only helps us to sing the praises of Jesus birth but also teaches Biblical doctrine. Can you see the truths of Scripture in the stanzas of the hymn? The virgin birth, Christ's deity, the immortality of the soul, the new birth, and Christ-like living are all presented in this hymn, "Hark the Herald, Angels Sing."

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Hark the herald, angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King;
Peace on earth, and mercy mild - God and sinners reconciled!"
Joyful, all ye nations, rise, Join the triumph of the skies;
With th'angelic host proclaim, "Christ is born in Bethlehem."

Christ, by highest heav'n adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord;
Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a Virgin's womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail t'incarnate Deity!
Pleased as man with men to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel.

Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Son of Righteousness;
Light and life to all He brings, Ris'n with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die;
Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth.

Come, Desire of nations, come! Fix in us Thy humble home;
Rise, the woman's conq'ring seed, Bruise in us the serpent's head,
Adam's likeness now efface, Stamp Thine image in its place,
Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in Thy love.

Hark! the herald angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King!"

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