Sing praise and thanksgiving let all creatures living

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Sing praise and thanksgiving let all creatures living

Author: Paul Gerhardt; Translator: Margaret Barclay
Tune: KREMSER
Published in 4 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	We Praise You, O God - (Kremser)

Instrumental
	Trumpet Solos for Worship, Vol. 2 (Arran…

Handbells
	BEGIN TO RING

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Author: Paul Gerhardt

Paul Gerhardt (b. Gräfenheinichen, Saxony, Germany, 1607; d. Lubben, Germany, 1676), famous author of Lutheran evangelical hymns, studied theology and hymnody at the University of Wittenberg and then was a tutor in Berlin, where he became friends with Johann Crüger. He served the Lutheran parish of Mittenwalde near Berlin (1651-1657) and the great St. Nicholas' Church in Berlin (1657-1666). Friederich William, the Calvinist elector, had issued an edict that forbade the various Protestant groups to fight each other. Although Gerhardt did not want strife between the churches, he refused to comply with the edict because he thought it opposed the Lutheran "Formula of Concord," which condemned some Calvinist doctrines. Consequently, he was r… Go to person page >

Translator: Margaret Barclay

Date of birth verified by letter from The Pilgrim Press to Jean Woodward Steele, 4 January, 1967. DNAH Archives Go to person page >

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First Line:	Sing praise and thanksgiving let all creatures living
Author:	Paul Gerhardt
Translator:	Margaret Barclay
Language:	English
Copyright:	© C. A. Gibson and M. Barclay

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Tune

KREMSER

The tune KREMSER owes its origin to a sixteenth-century Dutch folk song "Ey, wilder den wilt." Later the tune was combined with the Dutch patriotic hymn 'Wilt heden nu treden" in Adrianus Valerius's Nederlandtsch Gedenckclanck [sic: Nederlandtsche Gedenckclank] published posthumously in 1626. 'Wilt…

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