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Once in the Blest Baptismal Waters

Author: Emilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, 1637-1706 Meter: 9.8.9.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Christian Worship Lyrics: 1 Once in the blest baptismal waters I put on Christ and made him mine; now, numbered with God's sons and daughters, I share his peace and love divine. My God, for Jesus' sake I pray your peace may bless my dying day. 2 His body and his blood I've taken in his blest supper, feast divine; now I shall never be forsaken for I am his and he is mine. My God, for Jesus' sake I pray your peace may bless my dying day. 3 Though death may come today, tomorrow, I know in Christ I perish not; he grants the peace that stills all sorrow, gives me a robe without a spot. My God, for Jesus' sake I pray your peace may bless my dying day. 4 And thus I live in God contented and die without a thought of fear; to God's good plans I have consented, my faith is focused, firm, and clear. By grace, in Jesus' name I say, "Lord, you will bless my dying day!" Topics: Baptismal Life Scripture: Isaiah 57:1-2 Used With Tune: WER WEISS, WIE NAHE Text Sources: Tr.: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941, alt.

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WER WEISS, WIE NAHE

Meter: 9.8.9.8.8.8 Appears in 23 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Christian Möck, 1737-1818 Hymnal Title: Lutheran Service Book Tune Sources: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 17123 43212 32176 Used With Text: Once in the Blest Baptismal Waters

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Once in the Blest Baptismal Waters

Author: Emilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, 1637-1706 Hymnal: Christian Worship #678 (2021) Meter: 9.8.9.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Christian Worship Lyrics: 1 Once in the blest baptismal waters I put on Christ and made him mine; now, numbered with God's sons and daughters, I share his peace and love divine. My God, for Jesus' sake I pray your peace may bless my dying day. 2 His body and his blood I've taken in his blest supper, feast divine; now I shall never be forsaken for I am his and he is mine. My God, for Jesus' sake I pray your peace may bless my dying day. 3 Though death may come today, tomorrow, I know in Christ I perish not; he grants the peace that stills all sorrow, gives me a robe without a spot. My God, for Jesus' sake I pray your peace may bless my dying day. 4 And thus I live in God contented and die without a thought of fear; to God's good plans I have consented, my faith is focused, firm, and clear. By grace, in Jesus' name I say, "Lord, you will bless my dying day!" Topics: Baptismal Life Scripture: Isaiah 57:1-2 Languages: English Tune Title: WER WEISS, WIE NAHE

Once in the Blest Baptismal Waters

Author: Emilie Juliane von Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, 1637-1706 Hymnal: Lutheran Service Book #598 (2006) Meter: 9.8.9.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Lutheran Service Book Refrain First Line: O God, for Jesus' sake I pray Topics: Baptismal Life Scripture: Galatians 3:26-27 Languages: English Tune Title: WER WEISS, WIE NAHE

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Aemilie Juliane, Gräfin von Schwarzburg Rudolstadt

1637 - 1706 Person Name: Emilie Juliane von Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt, 1637-1706 Hymnal Title: Lutheran Service Book Author of "Once in the Blest Baptismal Waters" in Lutheran Service Book Emilie Juliane was daughter of Count Albert Friedrich of Barby and Mühlingen (on the Elbe, near its junction with the Saale). During the Thirty Years' war her father and family had to seek refuge in the Heidecksburg, the castle of his uncle, Count Ludwig Günther of Schwarzburg Rudolstadt, and Emilie was born at the Heidecksburg, Aug. 16, 1637. After the death of her father (1641) and mother (1642), she was adopted by her mother's sister (who was her godmother, and had become the wife of Count Ludwig Günther), and was educated at Rudolstadt with her cousins, under the care of Dr. Ahasuerus Fritsch, and other tutors. She became the wife of her cousin, Albert Anton, July 7, 1665, and died at Rudolstadt, Dec. 3, 1706 (Koch, iv. 56-63; Allg. Deutsche Biog, i. 127; Pasig's Introduction; Bode, pp. 63-64, &c). She was the most productive of German female hymn-writers, some 600 being attributed to her. Her early education in music and in poetry, and the influence of the kindred spirits of her cousin Ludamilia Elizabeth and of Dr. Ahasuerus Fritsch, no doubt fostered and developed her gifts. Her hymns, which are full of deep and child-like love to the Lamb of God, the Bridegroom of the Soul, partake too largely of the character of revelations of her inner life, and of reflections in verse, “improving" the events of her daily life, to be suited for Church use. A considerable number did, however, pass into the hymn-books, and the first here noted is a hymn of the first rank. Of those published in her lifetime the most appeared in her devotional works. (1) Geistliche Lieder und Gebete vor und nach Erlangung gottl Ehesegens, Rudolstadt, 1683. (2) Kühlwasser in grosser Hitze des Creutzes, Rudolstadt, 1685. (3) Tägliches Morgen- Mittags- und Abend-Opffer, Rudolstadt, 1685 (2nd ed., enlarged, 1699). Others appeared in the editions of the Rudolstadt Gesang-Buch, 1682-1704. After her death they appeared, collected, under the title of Der Freundin des Lammes Geistlicher Brautschmuck, pt. i., 1714, and enlarged 1742; pt. ii. 1742; pt. iii. 1770; a number of hymns by other authors, which the editors had found transcribed in the Countess's handwriting, being included by mistake. A selection of 108 of her Geistliche Lieder, ed. with an introduction, biographical and critical, by Dr. Pasig, appeared at Halle, 1855. Three have passed into English, viz.:— i. Wer weiss wie nahe mir mein Ende. For the Dying. This beautiful hymn was in last century the subject of an unpleasant controversy. It 1st appeared in the Appendix of 1688 to the Rudolstadt Gesang-Buch, 1682; and, like all the other hymns in that collection, it was given without an author's name. It at once passed into other collections, generally as anonymous, but sometimes under the name of the Countess. In the Schwartzburgische Denhmahl einer Christ-Gräflichen Lammes-Freundin, 1707, she was expressly named as author. On this G. M. Pfefferkorn (q.v.) claimed it as his own. The resulting controversy is given in detail in Wetzel, i. 4-26, ii. 294-307; iii. 156-191, and his A. Hymns i. 9-10, ii. 115-117; in Fischer, ii. 365-369; in Pasig's Introduction, xxiii.-xxxi.; and in Koch, viii. 637-639. The translations in common use are:— 1. Who knows how near my life's expended, omitting stanzas ix., x., in Dr. H. Mill's Horae Germanica, 1845 (1856, p. 245). His translations of stanzas i., vi.-viii. are included as No. 982 in the American Lutheran General Synod's Hymn Book, 1850-52, and as No. 430 in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. 2. Who knows how near my end may be! Time speeds away, a good and full translation by Miss Winkworth, in the 2nd Series of her Lyra Germanica, 1858, p. 204, and then as No. 187 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863. In the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book, 1868, stanzas i., vi., xi., xii., were included as No. 546. Other translations are: (1) "Who knows how soon my end may be," by Dr. G. Walker, I860, p. 97; (2) "Who knows how near my end may be? Time," &c, by E. Massie, 1867, p. 155. In addition the following have been translation, but are not in English common use:— ii. "Herr! mein Gott! lehre mich!" Evening, in No. iii., 1685, p. 30. iii. "Jesu Güte hat kein Ende." Morning, in No. ii., 1685, p. 228. Both translations are by H. J. Buckoll, 1842, p. 104. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ===================== Emilie Juliane , p. 330, i. The title of her 1683 book begins Geistliches Weiber-Aqua-Vit [ VVolfenbüttel Library]. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Christian Möck

1737 - 1818 Person Name: Christian Möck, 1737-1818 Hymnal Title: Lutheran Service Book Composer of "WER WEISS, WIE NAHE" in Lutheran Service Book Christian Möck; b. 1737, Thaun, Germany; d. 1818 , Ansbach Germany Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908