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How blest and lovely thy earthly dwellings

How blest and lovely thy earthly dwellings

Author: Jan Augusta
Tune: AUGUSTA (35543)
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Author: Jan Augusta

Augusta, Johann, seems to have been born at Prag about the year 1500. He was consecrated Bishop of the Bohemian Brethren in 1532, became president of their "select council" in 1537, and died at Jung-Bunzlau, Bohemia, Jan. 13, 1572. Two of his hymns, written in Bohemian, have passed into English through the German as follows:— i. Aj jak jsou milí tvoji příbytkove. [The Christian Church.] Founded on Ps. lxxxiv. In the Bohemian Brethren's Hymn Book, 1559, f. 166, in 18 stanzas. Translated into German by J. Geletzky in the Kirchengeseng , Prag, 1566, and thence in Wackernagel, iv. p. 355, beginning “0 wie sehr lieblich sind all dein Wohnung." Translated from the German by J. Gambold as No. 269 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754… Go to person page >

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First Line: How blest and lovely thy earthly dwellings
Author: Jan Augusta
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #334

Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #334
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Offices of Worship and Hymns #544

Offices of Worship and Hymns #544
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The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church #544

The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church #544
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