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Text: | Baptized into Your Name Most Holy |
Author: | Johann J. Rambach, 1693-1735 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1829-78 |
Tune: | O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE |
Composer: | Kornelius Heinrich Dretzel, 1697-1775 |
1 Baptized into your name most holy,
O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
I claim a place, though weak and lowly,
Among your seed, your chosen host.
Buried with Christ and dead to sin,
I have your Spirit now within.
2 My loving Father, here you take me
Henceforth to be your child and heir;
My faithful Savior, here you make me
The fruit of all your sorrows share;
O Holy Ghost, you comfort me
Through threat'ning clouds around I see.
3 O faithful God, you never fail me;
Your cov'nant surely will abide.
Let not eternal death assail me
Should I transgress it on my side!
Have mercy when I come defiled;
Forgive, lift up, restore your child.
4 All that I am and love most dearly,
Receive it all, O Lord, from me.
Oh, let me make my vows sincerely,
And help me your own child to be!
Let nothing that I am or own
Serve any will but yours alone.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Baptized into your name most holy |
Title: | Baptized into Your Name Most Holy |
Author: | Johann J. Rambach, 1693-1735 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1829-78 (alt.) |
Meter: | 98 98 88 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1982 |
Topic: | Commitment; Confirmation; Holy Baptism |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE |
Composer: | Kornelius Heinrich Dretzel, 1697-1775 |
Meter: | 98 98 88 |
Key: | F Major |