I had always assumed that this one is Anglican. And, of course, it is—in the English translation by Chandler:
Jordanis oras praevia
Vox ecce Baptistae quatit:
Praeconis ad grandes sonos
Ignavus abscedat sopor.
Auctoris adventum sui
Tellus & aether & mare
Praegestiente sentiunt,
Et jam salutant gaudio.
Mundemus & nos pectora:
Deo propinquanti viam
Sternamus, & Dignam domum
Tanto paremus hospiti.
Tu nostra, tu, Jesu, salus;
Tu robur & solatium:
Arens ut herba, te fine
Mortale tabescit genus.
Aegris salutarem manum
Extende: prostratos leva:
Ostende vultum, jam suus
Mundo reflorescet décor.
Qui liberator advenis,
Fili, tibi laus maxima
Cum Patre & almo Spiritu
In sempiterna secula. Amen.
Charles Coffin (1676-1749; also ODCC4), Hymni Sacri, Auctore Carolo Coffin, Ant. Universitatis Parisiensis Rectore, Collegii Dormano – Bellovaci Gymnasiarcha (Paris: Sumptibus suis ediderunt Bibliopolae Usuum Parisiensium, 1736), 34 (32: "In Adventu").
Sunday, December 21, 2025
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