I Kristne, som bekjende

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I Kristne, som bekjende

Translator: Søren Jonassøn; Author: Georg Werner
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 I Kristne, som bekjende
Den Guds enbaarne Søn,
Ser, han til os vil sende
En Gave som er skjøn:
Den værdig' Helligaand,
Som os al Sandhed lærer,
Som troens Gnist formerer,
Og Jesus vise kan!

2 Gud gav sit Ord det rene,
Som viser os vor Synd,
Ved det og Aanden ene
Faa vi Guds Kundskabs Fynd.
O store Miskundhed!
Nu kan vi Jesus kjende,
Nu kan vort Hjerte brænde
Til Gud i Kjærlighed!

3 Den samme du, o Herre,
I Hjertet prente saa,
At vi ei fra din Lære
Og Guds Ords Veie gaa!
Lad dine Læbers Lyd
Os saa i Øren klinge,
At Sjælen sig maa svinge
Til dig i Aandens Fryd!

4 O Hjertens rette Glæde,
Du værdig' Himmelgjest,
Naar Korset vil tiltræde,
Vær du da Hjertet næst!
Ja og i Dødens Krig,
Naar Kraften vil forsvinde,
O lad da Troen vinde
Og vorde seierrig!

Source: Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika #398

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Translator: Søren Jonassøn

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Author: Georg Werner

Werner, Georg, born March 22, 1589, at Preussisch-Holland, near Elbing, Prussia. In 1614 he became a master in the Löbenicht school at Königsberg, and in 1616 rector of the school at Preussisch-Holland. He was then appointed, in 1621, diaconus of the Löbenicht church at Königsberg. He died at Königsberg, July 15, 1643 (Koch, iii., 206, v. 659; Goedeke's Grundriss, vol. iii., 1887, p. 134, &c). He edited the Königsberg Gesang-Buch of 1643 (earliest copy now extant has title dated 1650, and preface dated 1643), to which he contributed a number of hymns. He also contributed to B. Derschau's Gesang-Buch, 1639 (p. 1248, ii.). His Psalm versions are noted under Psalters, German. The only hymn by him which has passed into English is a transl… Go to person page >

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