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Author: Christian Keimann Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Jesus I will never leave Lyrics: 1 Jesus I will never leave, Who for me Himself hath given; Firmly unto Him I'll cleave Nor from Him be ever driven. Life from Him doth light receive,-- Jesus I will never leave. 2 Jesus I will never leave While on earth I am abiding; What I have to Him I give, In all cares in Him confiding. Naught shall me of Him bereave,-- Jesus I will never leave. 3 Tho' my sight shall pass away, Hearing, taste, and feeling fail me; Tho' my life's last light of day Shall o'ertake and sore assail me; When His summons I receive, Jesus I will never leave. 4 Nor will I my Jesus leave When at last I shall come thither Where His saints He will receive, Where is bliss they live together. Endless joy to me He'll give,-- Jesus I will never leave. 5 Nor for earth's vain joys I crave Nor, without Him, heaven's pleasure; Jesus, who my soul did save, Evermore shall be my Treasure. He redemption did achieve,-- Jesus I will never leave. Amen. Topics: The Redeemer Scripture: Luke 9:57 Used With Tune: MEINEN JESUM LASS' ICH NICHT Text Sources: Tr. Composite

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MEINEN JESUM LASS' ICH NICHT

Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 38 hymnals Tune Sources: "Neuverfertigtes Gesangbuch," Darmstadt, 1699 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11716 71332 54321 Used With Text: Jesus, I Will Never Leave

MEINEN JESUM LASS ICH NICHT

Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 12 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. Hammerschmidt, c. 1611-1675 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 55667 71221 17665 Used With Text: Jesus I Will Never Leave

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Jesus I Will Never Leave

Author: C. Keimann, 1607-62 Hymnal: Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary #362 (1996) Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Lyrics: 1 Jesus I will never leave, Who for me Himself hath given; Firmly unto Him I'll cleave, Nor from Him be ever driven. Life from Him doth light receive-- Jesus I will never leave. 2 Jesus I will never leave While on earth I am abiding; What I have to Him I give, In all cares in Him confiding. Naught shall me of Him bereave-- Jesus I will never leave. 3 Though my sight shall pass away, Hearing, taste, and feeling fail me; Though my life's last light of day Shall o'ertake and sore assail me; When His summons I receive, Jesus I will never leave. 4 Nor will I my Jesus leave When at last I shall come thither Where His saints He will receive, Where is bliss they live together. Endless joy to me He'll give-- Jesus I will never leave. 5 Nor for earth's vain joys I crave Nor, without Him, heaven's pleasure; Jesus, who my soul did save, Evermore shall be my Treasure. He redemption did achieve-- Jesus I will never leave. Topics: Easter 2 Languages: English Tune Title: MEINEN JESUM LASS ICH NICHT

Jesus, I Will Never Leave

Author: Christian Keimann Hymnal: The Lutheran Hymnal #365 (1941) Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 First Line: Jesus I will never leave Lyrics: 1 Jesus I will never leave, Who for me Himself hath given; Firmly unto Him I'll cleave Nor from Him be ever driven. Life from Him doth light receive,-- Jesus I will never leave. 2 Jesus I will never leave While on earth I am abiding; What I have to Him I give, In all cares in Him confiding. Naught shall me of Him bereave,-- Jesus I will never leave. 3 Tho' my sight shall pass away, Hearing, taste, and feeling fail me; Tho' my life's last light of day Shall o'ertake and sore assail me; When His summons I receive, Jesus I will never leave. 4 Nor will I my Jesus leave When at last I shall come thither Where His saints He will receive, Where is bliss they live together. Endless joy to me He'll give,-- Jesus I will never leave. 5 Nor for earth's vain joys I crave Nor, without Him, heaven's pleasure; Jesus, who my soul did save, Evermore shall be my Treasure. He redemption did achieve,-- Jesus I will never leave. Amen. Topics: The Redeemer Scripture: Luke 9:57 Languages: English Tune Title: MEINEN JESUM LASS' ICH NICHT

Jesus I Will Never Leave

Author: Christian Keimann Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #3351 Meter: 7.8.7.8.7.7 Lyrics: 1. Jesus I will never leave, Who for me Himself hath given; Firmly unto Him I’ll cleave Nor from Him be ever driven. Life from Him doth light receive, Jesus I will never leave. 2. Jesus I will never leave While on earth I am abiding; That I have to Him I give, All my cares in Him confiding. Naught shall me of Him bereave, Jesus I will never leave. 3. Though my sight shall pass away, Hearing, taste, and feeling fail me; Though my life’s last light of day Shall o’ertake and sore assail me; When His summons I receive, Jesus I will never leave. 4. Nor will I my Jesus leave When at last I shall come thither Where His saints He will receive, Where in bliss they live together. Endless joy to me He’ll give, Jesus I will never leave. 5. Not for earth’s vain joys I crave Nor, without him, Heaven’s pleasure; Jesus, who my soul did save, Evermore shall be my Treasure. He redemption did achieve, Jesus I will never leave. Languages: English Tune Title: MEINEM JESUM LASS ICH NICHT

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Christian Keimann

1607 - 1662 Author of "Jesus, I Will Never Leave" in The Lutheran Hymnal Keimann, Christian, son of Zacharias Keimann, Lutheran pastor at Pankratz, in Bohemia, and after 1616 at Ober-Ullersdorf, was born at Pankratz, Feb. 27, 1607. In the autumn of 1627 he entered the University of Wittenberg, where he graduated M.A., March 19, 1634; and in the next month was appointed by the Town Council of Zittau as Conrector of their Gymnasium, of which he became Rector in 1638. He died at Zittau, Jan. 13, 1662 (Koch, iii. 369; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie xv. 535, &c). Keimann was a distinguished teacher. He was the author of a number of scholastic publications, of a few Scriptural plays, and of some 13 hymns. Almost all of his hymns came into church use. They take high rank among those of the 17th century, being of genuine poetic ring, fresh, strong, full of faith under manifold and heavy trials, and deeply spiritual. Two have passed into English:— i. Freuet euch, ihr Christen alle. Christmas. This beautiful hymn is included in 4 stanzas of 10 1. as No. 24 in pt. iv. of A. Hammerschmidt's Musikalische Andachten, published at Freiberg in Saxony, 1646; and is set to a tune by Hammerschmidt introduced by Hallelujah repeated twelve times. In the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 34. According to Koch, viii. 25, it was composed as part of a piece written by Keimann for his scholars to perform at Christmastide, 1645, and published as Der neugeborne Jesus, at Görlitz, 1646. Stanza iv. may refer to the truce of 1645 between Saxony and Sweden. Translated as:— 0 rejoice, ye Christians, loudly. A good and full translation by Miss Winkworth, as No. 33 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, where it is set to the original melody. ii. Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht; Weil er sich fur mien gegeben. Love to Christ. First appeared in A. Hammerschmidt's Fest- Bus- und Dancklieder, Zittau and Leipzig, 1658 (engraved title, 1659), pt. iii., No. 4, in 6 stanzas of 6 lines. It is an acrostic on the dying words uttered on Oct. 8, 1656, by the Elector Johann Georg I. of Saxony: Meinen (i.), Jesum (ii.), lass (iii.) ich (iv.) nicht (v.); st. vi. giving in the initial letters of lines 1-5 (J. G. C. Z. S.) the name, viz. Johann Georg Churfürst zu Sachsen, and then in line 6 the motto in full. Founded on the words of Jacob in Gen. xxxii. 26, it has comforted and strengthened many in life and at the hour of death; and has served as the model of many later hymns. Included as No. 131 in the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, ed. 1863. Translated as:— I will leave my Jesus never! A good translation, omitting st. iii., included as No. 448 in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book, 1868, marked as Unknown translator, 1864. Other translations are:—(1) "Never will I part with Christ," by J. C. Jacobi, 1722, p. 80 (1732, p. 132), and thence in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754 (1886 as pt. of No. 452 altered, and beginning, "Jesus will I never leave"). (2) "I will not let Jesus go," by J. S. Stallybrass in the Tonic Solfa Reporter, Dec. 1860. (3) "Jesus will I ne'er forsake," by E. Massie, 1867, p. 117. (4) "My Redeemer quit I not," by N. L. Frothingham, 1870, P, 185. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Andreas Hammerschmidt

1611 - 1675 Person Name: A. Hammerschmidt, c. 1611-1675 Composer of "MEINEN JESUM LASS ICH NICHT" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Andreas Hammerschmidt; b. about 1611, Bohemia; d. 1675, Zittau, Saxony Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908