Nun treten wir ins neue Jahr

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1 Nun treten wir ins neue Jahr,
Herr Jesu, rett uns aus Gefahr;
wend ab in dieser bösen Zeit
Krieg, Theurung, Pest und alles Leid.
Wir bitten, laß dir ins gemein
die drei Hauptständ befohlen sein.

2 Gieb uns dein Wort und Sacrament
im Lande bis an unser End.
Bekrön das Jahr mit deiner Güt,
und uns mit Segen überschütt.
Daß solches Amen sei und wahr,
von Herzen wünscht der Christen Schaar.

Source: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #588

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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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