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Text:A Sad and Doleful Care
Author:Menno Simons, 1496-1561
Translator:Leonard Verduin
Tune:BENDA NEW
Arranger:John J. Overholt

422. A Sad and Doleful Care

Text Information
First Line: A sad and doleful care (Een truerich droeuich leyt)
Title: A Sad and Doleful Care
Dutch Title: Een Truerich Droeuich Leyt
Translator: Leonard Verduin (1955)
Author: Menno Simons, 1496-1561 (c. 1550)
Meter: Irregular
Language: Dutch; English
Publication Date: 1972
Scripture:
Topic: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; The Church: Hymns of Martyrs
Source: THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF MENNO SIMONS, edited by John Christian Wenger, Text of hymn from
Copyright: Copyright 1956 by Mennonite Publishing House, Scottdale, Pa. Used by permission.
Notes: We which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. II Cor. 4:11.
Tune Information
Name: BENDA NEW
Arranger: John J. Overholt (1970)
Meter: Irregular
Incipit: 13552 32123 15235
Key: E Major
Source: Philharmonia, 1875, From the
Copyright: Arrangement Copyright © 1972 by The Christian Hymnary Publishers
Notes: M.M. 69


Text Information:

Menno Simons, 1496-1561, Dutch Anabaptist church leader.


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