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Helft mir Gottes Güte preisen

Author: Paul Eber Appears in 32 hymnals

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Helft mir Gott's güte preisen, Ihr lieben kinderlein!

Author: Dr. Paul Eberus Hymnal: Kirchen-Gesangbuch #50 (1862) Lyrics: 1. Helft mir Gott's güte preisen, Ihr lieben kinderlein! Mit g'sang und andern weisen Ihm allzeit dankbar sein, Fürnehmlich zu der zeit, Da sich das jahr thut enden, Die sonn' sich zu und wenden, Das neujahr ist nicht weit. 2. Ernstlich laßt uns betrachten Des Herren reiche gnad', Und so gering nicht achten Sein' unzählig' wohlthat. Stets führen zu gemüth, Wie er dies jahr hat geben All' nothdurft diesem leben Und uns für leid behüt't: 3. Lahramt, schul', kirch' erhalten In gutem fried' und ruh', Nahrund für jung und alten Bescheret auch dazu; Und gar mit milder hand Sein' güter ausgespendet, Verwüstung abgewendet Von dieser stadt und land. 4. Er hat unser verschonet Aus väterlicher gnad', Wenn er sonst hätt' belohnet All' unsre missethat Mit gleicher straf' und pein, Wir wären längst gestorben, In mancher noth verdorben, Dieweil wir sünder sein. 5. Nach vaters art und treuen Er uns so gnädig ist, Wenn wir di sünd' bereuen, Gläuben an Jesum Christ, Herzlich, ohn' heuchelei, Thut er all' sünd' vergeben, Lindert die straf' darneben, Steht uns in nöthen bei. 6. All' solch' dein' güt' wir preisen, Vater im himmelsthron! Die du uns thust beweisen Durch Christum deinen Sohn, Und bitten ferner dich: Gib uns ein friedlich's jahre, Für allem leid bewahre, Und nähr' uns mildiglich. 7. Gott Vater und dem Sohne, Und dem heiligen Geist Sei ewig preis und wonne, Der hat uns so gespeis't In dem vergangnen jahr. Er woll' uns ferner geben Ein fein ruhiges leben In diesem neuen jahr. Topics: Lieder am Fest der Beschneidung Christi und am Neujahrstag; Lieder am Fest der Beschneidung Christi und am Neujahrstag Languages: German

Helft mir Gottes Güte preisen

Author: P. Eber, 1511-1569 Hymnal: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #577 (1872) Lyrics: 1 Helft mir Gotts Güte preisen, ihr lieben Kindelein, mit G'sang und andrer Weisen ihm allzeit dankbar sein, Vornehmlich zu der Zeit, da sich das Jahr thut enden, die Sonn sich zu uns wenden, das neu Jahr ist nicht weit. 2 Erstlich laßt uns betrachten des Herren reiche Gnad, und so gering nicht achten sein unzählig Wohlthat: stets führen zu Gemüth, wie er dies Jahr hat geben Nothdurft diesem leben und uns vor Leid behüt't. 3 Lehramt, Schul, Kirch, erhalten in gutem Fried und Ruh; Nahrung für Jung und Alte bescheret auch dazu, und gar mit milder Hand sein Güter ausgespendet, Verwüstung abgewendet von dieser Stadt und Land. 4 Er hat unser verschonet aus väterlicher Gnad; wenn er sonst hätt belohnet all unser Missethat mit gleicher Straf und Pein; wir wären längst gestorben, in mancher Noth verdorben, die wir voll Sünden sein. 5 Nach Vaters Art und Treuen er uns so gnädig ist, wenn wir die Sünd bereuen, glauben an Jesum Christ herzlich ohn Heuchelei: thut er all Sünd vergeben, lindert die Straf daneben, steht uns in Nöthen bei. 6 All solch dein Güt wir preisen, Vater ins Himmels Thron, die du uns thust beweisen durch Christum deinen Sohn, und bitten ferner dich: gieb uns ein friedlichs Jahre, vor allem Leid bewahre und nähr und mildiglich! Topics: Neujahrslieder; New Years Songs Languages: German

Helft mir Gottes güte preisen

Hymnal: Die Kleine Geistliche Harfe der Kinder Zions #36 (1811) Languages: German

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Paul Eber

1511 - 1569 Person Name: Dr. Paul Eberus Author of "Helft mir Gott's güte preisen, Ihr lieben kinderlein!" in Kirchen-Gesangbuch Eber, Paul, son of Johannes Eber, master tailor at Kitzingen, Bavaria, was born at Kitzingen, Nov. 8, 1511. He was sent in 1523 to the Gymnasium at Ansbach, but being forced by illness to return home, was on his way thrown from horseback and dragged more than a mile, remaining as a consequence deformed ever after. In 1525 he entered the St. Lorentz school at Nürnberg, under Joachim Camerarius, and in 1532 went to the University of Wittenberg, where he graduated 1536, and thereafter became tutor in the Philosophical Faculty. He was appointed Professor of Latin in 1544, then in 1557 Professor of Hebrew and Castle preacher, and in 1558 Town preacher and General Superintendent of the Electorate, receiving in 1559 the degree D.D. from the University. He died at Wittenberg, Dec. 10, 1569 (Koch, i. 271-278; Allgemeines Deutsche Biog., v. 529). At Wittenberg he was a close friend of Melanchthon, was privy to all his plans, and conducted the greater part of his correspondence. After Melanchthon's death in 1560, he became leader of his party, and had to engage in various controversies with the Crypto-Calvinists, &c.; the seeds of his fatal illness being sown on his return journey from the fruitless conference held at Altenburg with the theologians of Jena, which lasted from Oct. 20, 1568, to March 9, 1569. Eber was, next to Luther, the best poet of the Wittenberg school. His hymns, some of them written for his own children to sing to Luther's melodies, are distinguished for their child-like spirit and beautiful simplicity. Seventeen hymns have been attributed to him, four of which are certainly his, and probably two others. Of these six, five have been translated into English, one of which is noted under "Dicimus grates," and the others are:— i. Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott. For the Dying. The first hymnbook in which this simple and beautiful hymn has been found is the Low German Enchiridion, published at Hamburg, 1565, where it is in 8 stanzas of 6 lines., entitled "A prayer to Christ for a happy departure from this troublous life," and marked as "D. Paulus Eberus Filiolis suis faciebat MDLVII. Wackernagel, iv. p. 4, gives this and a second form in High German from the Psalmen, Geystliche Lieder und Gesänge, Strassburg, 1569. In his Bibliographie, 1855, p. 233, Wackernagel describes an undated broadsheet, which he would date 1550, and at p. 279 says it forms the first of Neun Schöne Geistliche Lieder, Nürnberg N.D., c. 1556. G. Döring, in his Choralkunde, Danzig, 1865, p. 434, says it appeared as "Panie Jezu ty's czlowiek i Bog" in the Polish Cantional, edited by Pastor Seklucyan, and published at Königsberg, 1559. Lauxmann, in Koch, viii, 591-594, adds that it comforted Eber himself while he lay a-dying, Dec. 10, 1569; was repeated by Hugo Grotius a few minutes before his death, Aug. 28, 1645; and was a favourite hymn of Prince Wolfgang of Anhalt (d. 1566), Christian I., Elector of Saxony (d. 1591), of the Margrave Georg Friedrieh of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (d. 1603), &c. Included as No. 820 in the Unv. L. S., 1851. The translations in common use are:— 1. Lord Jesus Christ, true Man and God, Who borest. Good and full, by Miss Winkworth in the first Ser. of her Lyra Germanica, 1855, p. 239. Of this stanzas i.-iv. appear in the Psalms & Hymns., Bedford, 1859; i., ii., viii. in the Harrow School Hymn Book, 1866 ; and i.-iii., v., viii. in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book,1868. A cento from stanza ii., line 3-6, iii., 11. 1-4, vii., 1line 3-6, beginning, "When from my sight all fades away," is No. 1181 in the American Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858. 2. Lord Jesus Christ, true Man and God, Thou Who. A translation by E. Cronenwett, in nine stanzas of L.M., based on stanzas i., ii., iv.-viii., as No. 434, in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal 1880. Other translations are, (1) "0 God, support me, death is near," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 103. (2) "Lord Jesus Christ, true Man and God, who hast”, by E. Massie, 1867, p. 10. ii. Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sein. In Trouble. Founded on a hymn by Joachim Camerarius, his former master at Nürnberg [b. at Bamberg, April 12, 1500, d. as Professor of Greek and Latin at Leipzig, April 17, 1574], which in Wackernagel, i. p. 324, runs thus:— "In tenebris nostrae et densa caligine mentis, Cum nihil est toto pectore consilii, Turbati erigimus, Deus, ad Te lumina cordis Nostra, tuamque fides solius erat opem. Tu rege consiliis actus, Pater optime, nostros, Nostrum opus ut laudi serviat omne Tuae." These lines comforted Melanchthon in 1546; and Lauxmann, in Koch, viii. 161-165, thinks probably Eber also. He relates that on Ascension Day, 1547, after the battle of Mühlberg, the Wittenbergers having received a message from the captive Elector to deliver their city to the Emperor Charles V. assembled for prayer in church; and quotes a portion of the prayer by Bugenhagen which greatly resembles Eber's hymn. But that the hymn was written then we have no proof, and the earliest source quoted by Wackernagel, iv. p. 6, is the Naw Betbüchlein, Dresden 1566, in 7 stanza of 4 line., though in his Bibliographie, 1855, p. 312, he describes a broadsheet printed at Nürnberg, N.D., c. 1560. In M. Moller's Meditationes sanctorum Patrum, Görlitz, 1584, it is entitled "A beautiful prayer of the venerable Dr. Paul Eber, which he composed on the beautiful words of King Jehoshaphat, 2 Chron. xx. 12." Included as No. 583 in the Unv. L. S., 1851. A "Cry from the depths," though not in despair but in trustful confidence in God, it is one of the finest and most widely used hymns of the Reformation period. Lauxmann relates how the singing of this hymn and the prayers of Martin Rinkart (q.v.), Archidiaconus of Eulenburg near Leipzig, prevailed to move the heart of the Swedish Lieutenant-Colonel, who on Feb. 21, 1635, had demanded from the inhabitants a ransom of £4500, but eventually accepted 2000 florins; says that in commemoration of a similar deliverance from the Swedish army in 1642 the hymn was long sung at the end of the Sunday afternoon service at Pegau, near Leipzig, and adds other incidents regarding its use. The only translation in common use is :— When in the hour of utmost need. A full and very good translation by Miss Winkworth in the 2nd Ser. of her Lyra Germanica, 1858, p. 180, and thence as No. 141 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863. Included in full in the American Presbyterian Hymnal 1874, and the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. In full, though slightly altered, as No. 233, in Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1861, but omitted in the revised edition, 1875. In the Hymnary, 1871, Psalmist, 1878, J. L. Porter's Collection, 1876, Thring's Collection, 1882, and the Evangelical Hymna, N. Y., 1880, st. v. is omitted. Other translations are, (1) "When we are under great distress," by J. C. Jacobi, 1720, p. 19 (1722, p. 119; 1732, p. 184, altered, and thence as No. 140 in p. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754). (2) "When neither help nor counsel's nigh," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 89. (3) "When all our way is hedged around," by N. L. Frothingham, 1870. His hymns not in English common use are:— iii. Helft mir Gottes Güte preisen. [New Year.] Written on the name Helena, borne both by his wife and his daughter, the initial letters of each stanza composing it. Wackernagel, iv. p. 6, quotes it from Eichorn's Geistliche Lieder, Frankfurt a. Oder, c. 1580, in 6 st. of 8 l., entitled, "A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the New Year, in remembrance of God's goodness, for the Children." Older but less correct forms are noted by Mützell, p. 486, as in the Copenhagen GesangBuch,1511, and the Stettin, 1576. Included as No. 68 in the Unv. L. S., 1851. It is translation as, "Ye Christians in this nation," by J. C. Jacobi, 1722, p. 11 (1732, p. 10, altered and beginning, "Come, let us all, with Fervour.") iv. In Christi Wunden schlaf ich ein. [For the Dying.] Appears in Jeremias Weber's Gesang-Buch, Leipzig, 1638, p. 797, marked as "Another" (the hymn immediately preceding is ascribed to Eber), in 3 st. of 4 1. In the Berlin Geistlicher Lieder Schatz, ed. 1863, No. 1468, the text is slightly varied, and arranged in 2 st. of 6 1. It was first ascribed to Eber in the Nürnberg Gesang-Buch, 1676. Lauxmann, in Koch, viii. 595-601, says of it, "That the hymn is much older than the date of its appearance [i.e. than 1638] seems obvious; that it breathes the childlike spirit of Eber is certain. More than this we cannot say." St. i., 11. 3-6, "Ja Christi Blut und Gerechtigkeit," has been adopted by many pious Germans, young and old, as a prayer in life and death, and Lauxmann relates many interesting incidents regarding its use by A. G. Spangenberg, by Wilhelm Hey, and others. These four lines were adopted by N. L. von Zinzendorf, as the first stanza of his well-known hymn, "Christi Blut und Gerechtigkeit" (q. v.). It is translation as, "I fall asleep in Jesus' arms," by Miss Winkworth, i860, p. 121. [Rev .James Mearns] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)