Print thine image pure and holy

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Print thine image pure and holy

Author: Thomas Hansen Kingo; Translator: J. C. Aaberg
Tune: GENEVAN 42
Published in 5 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Seasonal Psalms for Organ, Vol. 1

Choral
	In You, O Lord, I Will Place My Trust

Instrumental
	In dulci jubilo - Three Advent/Christma…

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Print thine image pure and holy
On my heart, O Lord of Grace;
So that nothing high nor lowly
Thy blest likeness can efface.
Let the clear inscription be:
Jesus, crucified for me,
And the Lord of all creation,
Be my refuge and salvation.

Amen.

Source: Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America #71

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Author: Thomas Hansen Kingo

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Translator: J. C. Aaberg

Jens Christian Aaberg (b. Moberg, Denmark, 1877; d. Minneapolis, MN, 1970) immigrated to the United States in 1901. Educated at Grand View College and Seminary in Des Moines, Iowa, he entered the ministry of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and served congregations in Marinette, Wisconsin; Dwight, Illinois; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Aaberg wrote Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark (1945), translated at least eighty hymns from Danish into English, and served on four hymnal committees. In 1947 King Frederick of Denmark awarded him the Knight Cross of Denmark. --Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987 Go to person page >

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First Line:	Print thine image pure and holy
Author:	Thomas Hansen Kingo
Translator:	J. C. Aaberg
Refrain First Line:	Let the clear inscription be
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

GENEVAN 42

Louis Bourgeois (PHH 3) composed or adapted this tune for Psalm 42 for the Genevan psalter. The 1564 harmonization by Claude Goudimel (PHH 6) originally placed the melody in the tenor. An alternate harmonization with descants by Johann Crüger (PHH 42) can be found opposite 41 in the Psalter Hymnal.…

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