Brunnquell aller Güter. J. Franck. [Whitsuntide.] First published in the Crüger-Runge Gesang-Buch, Berlin, 1653, No. 158, in 8 stanzas of 8 lines, entitled, "A hymn of praise to God the Holy Ghost." Repeated in Crüger's Praxis pietatis melica, 1656, No. 199, and most subsequent hymnals as the Unverfälscher Liedersegen, 1851, No. 163. In Franck's Geistliches Sion, 1674, p. 26 (edition 1846, p. 27). The translation in common use is:—
Source of good, whose power controls. A full and very good translation by R. Massie in M. Luther's Spiritual Songs, 1854, p. 89, repeated unaltered save iii. lines 7, and iv. lines 5 as No. 143 in the edition of 1857, of Mercer's Church Psalter & Hymn Book, in two parts, the second beginning with stanza v. "As the hart with longing looks" (Ox. edition, 1864, No. 20, retains only stanzas i., ii., vii., viii.). In full but slightly altered as No. 1052 in Kennedy, 1863, while stanzas i., ii., v. are given in Alford's Year of Praise, 1867, and stanzas i., v., vi. in Martineau's Hymns, 1873. In the Methodist New Connexion Hymns, 1863, No. 311, beginning "Mighty Spirit! by Whose aid," is made up of stanzas vi. lines 1-4, ii. lines 5-8, and iv. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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