To God on high be thanks and praise, Who deigns our bonds to sever

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To God on high be thanks and praise, Who deigns our bonds to sever

Author: William Ball; Author: Nikolaus Decius
Tune: ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH
Published in 16 hymnals

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	Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Author: William Ball

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Author: Nikolaus Decius

Decius, Nicolaus (Nicolaus a Curia or von Hofe, otherwise Hovesch, seems to have been a native of Hof, in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and to have been originally called Tech. He became a monk, and was in 1519 Probst of the cloister at Steterburg, near Wolfenbüttel. Becoming favourable to the opinions of Luther, he left Steterburg in July, 1522, and went to Brunswick, where he was appointed a master in the St. Katherine and Egidien School. In 1523 he was invited by the burgesses of Stettin to labour there as an Evangelical preacher along with Paulus von Rhode. He became preacher at the Church of St. Nicholas; was probably instituted by the Town Council in 1526, when von Rhode was instituted to St. Jacob's; and at the visitation in 1535 was re… Go to person page >

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First Line:	To God on high be thanks and praise, Who deigns our bonds to sever
Author:	William Ball
Author:	Nikolaus Decius
Copyright:	Public Domain

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ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH

The tune name ALLEIN GOTT derives from the opening words of Decius's rhymed text in High German. The tune was first published in Schumann's Geistliche Lieder. Decius adapted the tune from a tenth-century Easter chant for the Gloria text, beginning at the part accompanying the words "et in terra pax.…

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