Raise your devotion mortal tongues

Raise your devotion mortal tongues

Translator: Johann Christian Jacobi; Author: Johannes Zwick
Tune: LUTHER'S HYMN
Published in 5 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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I. Raise your Devotion, mortal Tongues,
To praise the King of Glory,
Sweet be the Accents of your Songs
Of him who went before ye;
Bright Angels, strike your loudest Strings:
Let Heav'n and all created Things
Sound our Emanuel's Praises.

II. Ye mourning Souls, look upward too,
For Christ is now preparing
At God's right Hand a Place for you:
Shake off what seems despairing.
Thence our great Lord and King shall come
To fetch our longing Spirits Home,
And crown your Love and Labour.

III. Since He o'er Heav'n bears sov'raign Sway,
By all its Pow'rs attended;
And has more Graces to display
Than can be comprehended;
Fear not but He his Graces pours
On such meek trembling Hearts as yours,
The Objects of his Favour.

IV. Extend, O Lord, thy sov'raign Grace,
Thy Light to ev'ry nation:
Let Earth and Seas avow and praise
Thy Love, thy Pow'r, thy Passion;
'Till we join with thy Saints above
In Hymns to celebrate thy Love,
And dwell with Thee for ever.

Source: Psalmodia Germanica: or, The German Psalmody: translated from the high Dutch together with their proper tunes and thorough bass (2nd ed., corr. and enl.) #41

Translator: Johann Christian Jacobi

Jacobi, John Christian, a native of Germany, was born in 1670, and appointed Keeper of the Royal German Chapel, St. James's Palace, London, about 1708. He held that post for 42 years, and died Dec. 14, 1750. He was buried in the Church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. His publications included :— (1) A Collection of Divine Hymns, Translated from the High Dutch. Together with their Proper Tunes and Thorough Bass. London: Printed and Sold by J. Young, in St. Paul’s Churchyard; . . . 1720. This edition contains 15 hymns. Two years later this collection, with a few changes in the text and much enlarged, was republished as (2) Psalmodia Germanica; or a Specimen of Divine Hymns. Translated from the High Dutch. Together with their Proper Tunes… Go to person page >

Author: Johannes Zwick

Zwick, Johann, son of Conrad Zwick, Rathsherr at Constanz, was born at Constanz, circa 1496. He studied law at the Universities of Basel, Freiburg, Paris, and Padua (where he graduated LL.D.), and was for some time a tutor in law at Freiburg and at Basel. In 1518 he entered the priesthood, and in 1522 was appointed parish priest of Riedlingen on the Upper Danube. Being accused of Lutheran tendencies, he was forbidden in 1523 to officiate, and in 1525 his living was formally taken from him. He returned to Constanz, and was appointed by the Council in 1527 as one of the town preachers. Here he laboured unweariedly, caring specially for the children, the poor, and the refugees, till 1542. In Aug. 1542, the people of Bischofszell, in Thurgau, h… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Raise your devotion mortal tongues
German Title: Auf diesen Tag, bedenken wir
Translator: Johann Christian Jacobi
Author: Johannes Zwick
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Protestant Church of the United Brethren. Rev. ed. #d612

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A Hymn and Prayer-Book #47

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Psalmodia Germanica #41

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