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Brunn alles Heils dich ehren wir

Representative Text

1 Brunn alles Heils dich ehren wir
und öffnen unsern Mund vor dir;
aus deiner Gottheit Heiligtum
dein hoher Segen auf uns komm.

2 Der Herr, der Schöpfer, bei uns bleib,
er segne uns nach Seel und Leib,
und uns behüte seine Macht
vor allem Übel Tag und Nacht.

3 Der Herr, der Heiland, unser Licht,
uns leuchten laß sein Angesicht,
daß wir ihn schaun und glauben frei,
daß er uns ewig gnädig sei.

4 Der Herr, der Tröster, ob uns schweb,
sein Antlitz über uns erheb,
daß uns sein Bild wird eingedrückt,
und geb uns Frieden unverrückt.

5 Gott Vater, Sohn und Heilger Geist,
o Segensbrunn, der ewig fleußt:
durchfließ Herz, Sinn und Wandel wohl,
mach uns deins Lobs und Segens voll!

Source: Antwort Finden in alten und neuen Liedern, in Worten zum Nachdenken und Beten: evangelisches Gesangbuch (Bayern, Mitteldeutschland, Thüringen) #140

Author: Gerhardt Tersteegen

Tersteegen, Gerhard, a pious and useful mystic of the eighteenth century, was born at Mörs, Germany, November 25, 1697. He was carefully educated in his childhood, and then apprenticed (1715) to his older brother, a shopkeeper. He was religiously inclined from his youth, and upon coming of age he secured a humble cottage near Mühlheim, where he led a life of seclusion and self-denial for many years. At about thirty years of age he began to exhort and preach in private and public gatherings. His influence became very great, such was his reputation for piety and his success in talking, preaching, and writing concerning spiritual religion. He wrote one hundred and eleven hymns, most of which appeared in his Spiritual Flower Garden (1731). He… Go to person page >

Notes

Brunn alles Heils, dieh ehren wir. G. Tersteegen. [Trinity Sunday.] Based on the blessing of Israel, Numb. vi. 24-27, and first published in the 4th edition, 1745, of Tersteegen's Geistliches Blumengärtlein (Book iii., No.75), in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, entitled, "A prayer of faith at morning, at evening, at table, after sermon, and at all times." In the Unverfälscher Liedersegen, 1851, it is No. 214. Translations in common use are:—
1. Salvation's healing Spring! to Thee. Full and good by H. J. Buckoll in his Hymns from the German 1842, p. 52. In the Irish Church Hymnal, 1869, following the example of the Rugby School Hymn Book, 1850, stanza i. is omitted, the rest is slightly altered, and it begins: "O Lord, our Maker! ever near!" This arrangement was made by Buckoll as joint editor of the Rugby School Hymn Book.
2. Thee, Fount of blessing, we adore! In full by Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Germanica, 2nd Series, 1858, p. 62, and repeated, slightly altered, in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 16.
Other translations are:—
(1) "Thou source of health and all our weal," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 39.
(2) "Fountain of all salvation, we adore Thee," by Lady Durand, 1873, p. 108. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Tune

OLD HUNDREDTH

This tune is likely the work of the composer named here, but has also been attributed to others as shown in the instances list below. According to the Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal (1992), Old 100th first appeared in the Genevan Psalter, and "the first half of the tune contains phrases which may ha…

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HERR JESU CHRIST DICH ZU UNS WEND (13532)


ROTHWELL (Tans'ur)


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