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Ah come, thou most beloved guest

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Ah, come, Thou most beloved guest

Author: Lueder Mencken Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren. Rev. ed. #d9 (1813) Languages: English

Ah come, thou most beloved guest

Hymnal: Hymns Arranged for the Communion Service of the Church of the United Brethren #62b (1802)

Ah! come, thou most beloved guest

Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren. New and Revised ed. #934 (1832) Languages: English

1658 - 1726 Author of "Ah, come, Thou most beloved guest" Mencken, Lüder, LL.D., was born at Oldenburg, Dec. 14, 1658, and became a student of law at the Universities of Leipzig and Jena; graduating at Leipzig, M.A., 1680, LL.D., 1682. In 1682 he became tutor in the faculty of law at Leipzig, and was appointed ordinary professor of law in 1702. After a stroke of paralysis, on June 26, he died at Leipzig, June 29, 1726. The only hymn ascribed to him is:— Ach komm, du süisser Herzens-Gast. Holy Communion. Included in the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, Darmstadt, 1698, p. 273, in 17 stanzas, and repeated in the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, ed. 1863, No. 467. The translations are (1) "Ah come, thou my heart's sweetest Guest," as No. 684 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. (2) "Ah! come, Thou most beloved guest," as No. 1186 in the Supplement of 1808 to the Moravian Hymn Book, 1801 (1886, No. 981). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)