Christmas Is Now Drawing Near

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Christmas is now drawing near at hand

Come serve the Lord and be at His command
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And God a portion for you will provide
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And give a blessing to your soul besides
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Down in the garden where flowers grow in ranks

Down on your bended knees and give the Lord thanks
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Down on your knees and pray both night and day
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Leave off your sins and live upright I pray

So proud and lofty is some sort of sin

Which many take delight and pleasure in
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Whose conversation God doth much dislike
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And yet He shakes His sword before He strikes

So proud and lofty do some people go

Dressing themselves like players in the show
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They patch and paint and dress with idle stuff
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As if God had not made them fine enough

Even little children learn to curse and swear

And can't rehearse one word of godly prayer
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Oh teach them better, oh teach them to rely
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On Christ the sinner's friend who reigns on high