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Text: | Baptized into your name most holy |
Author: | Johann Jakob Rambach, 1693-1735 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 |
Tune: | NACH EINER PRÜFUNG |
Composer: | Johann Gottfried Schicht, 1753-1823 |
1 Baptized into your name most holy,
O Father, Son, and Spirit, Lord,
I claim a place, though weak and lowly,
among the people you have called.
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 Saviour, here you make me
the fruit of all your sorrow share.
Come, Holy Spirit, comfort me
though threatening clouds around I see.
3 O faithful God, you never fail me;
your covenant 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.
Help me to make my vows sincerely
and your devoted 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 |
Author: | Johann Jakob Rambach, 1693-1735 |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth, 1827-78 (alt.) |
Meter: | 98.98.88 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Topic: | Baptism; Renewal of Baptismal Vows |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NACH EINER PRÜFUNG |
Composer: | Johann Gottfried Schicht, 1753-1823 |
Key: | C Major |