Page:Messiah - An Oratorio - As it is Perform’d at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden.djvu/12

This page has been validated.
14
MESSIAH.

time, Thou art my Son, this Day have I begotten thee?

Chorus.

Let all the Angels of God worſhip him.

Recitative.

Thou art gone up on high, thou haſt led Captivity captive, and received Gifts for Men, yea even for thine Enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

Chorus.

The Lord gave the Word, great was the Company of the Preachers.

SONG.

How beautiful are the Feet of them that preach the Goſpel of Peace, and bring glad Tidings of good Things.

Chorus.

Their Sound is gone out into all Lands, and their Words unto the Ends of the World.

SONG.

Why do the Nations ſo furiouſly rage together, and why do the People imagine a vain thing? The Kingsof