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How Bright Appears the Morning Star

Author: William Mercer; Philipp Nicolai Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7.4.8.4.8 Appears in 30 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names & Places Jesse; Biblical Names & Places Jesse Lyrics: 1 How bright appears the Morning Star, with mercy beaming from afar; the host of heaven rejoices. O Righteous Branch, O Jesse's Rod, the Son of Man and Son of God! we too will lift our voices: Jesus, Jesus, holy, holy, yet most lowly, come, draw near us; great Immanuel, come and hear us. 2 Though circled by the hosts on high, he deigned to cast a pitying eye upon his helpless creature. The whole creation's head and Lord, by highest seraphim adored, assumed our very nature; Jesus, grant us, through your merit, to inherit your salvation. Hear, O hear our supplication. 3 Rejoice, O heavens, and earth, reply; with praise, O sinners, fill the sky for this, his incarnation. Incarnate God, put forth your power, ride on, ride on, great Conqueror, till all know your salvation. Amen, amen! Alleluia, alleluia! Praise be given evermore by earth and heaven. Scripture: Revelation 22:16 Used With Tune: WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET

Abide with Us, Our Savior

Author: Josua Stegmann, 1588-1632 Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 40 hymnals Topics: Biblical Names & Places Satan; Biblical Names & Places Satan Lyrics: 1 Abide with us, our Savior, let not your mercy cease; from Satan's might defend us, and give our hearts your peace. 2 Abide with us, our Helper, sustain us by your Word; let us and all your people to living faith be stirred. 3 Abide with us, Redeemer, O Light, eternal Light; your truth direct and guide us to flee from error's night. 4 To Father, Son, and Spirit all praise and glory be, who were and are forever the eternal One in Three. Used With Tune: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN

What Fabled Names from Judah's Past

Author: Thomas H. Troeger Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Biblical Names and Places Peter Refrain First Line: "You are the Christ! God's holy son Scripture: Luke 9:18-20 Used With Tune: UNE JEUNE PUCELLE

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ADESTE FIDELES

Meter: Irregular Appears in 1,318 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Francis Wade Topics: Biblical Names & Places Bethlehem; Biblical Names & Places Bethlehem Tune Sources: Hymns Ancient and Modern Revised (desc.) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11512 55323 43211 Used With Text: O Come, All Ye Faithful

MENDELSSOHN

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D with refrain Appears in 621 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mendelssohn; William H. Cummings; David Willcocks Topics: Biblical Names & Places Bethlehem; Biblical Names & Places Bethlehem Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

WACHET AUF

Meter: Irregular Appears in 319 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans Sachs; Philipp Nicolai; Johann S. Bach, 1685-1650 Topics: Biblical Names & Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names & Places Jerusalem Tune Sources: Cantata 140 (harm. in) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 13555 56551 51232 Used With Text: Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying

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Do Not Keep Silent, O God

Author: Iona Community Hymnal: Psalms for All Seasons #83A (2012) Topics: Biblical Names and Places Amalek; Biblical Names and Places Ammon; Biblical Names and Places Assyria; Biblical Names and Places Edom; Biblical Names and Places En-dor; Biblical Names and Places Hagarites; Biblical Names and Places Ishmaelites; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Jabin; Biblical Names and Places Lot; Biblical Names and Places Midian; Biblical Names and Places Moab; Biblical Names and Places Oreb; Biblical Names and Places Philistia; Biblical Names and Places Sisera; Biblical Names and Places Tyre; Biblical Names and Places Zalmunna; Biblical Names and Places Zeeb First Line: Your enemies rise up in tumult Scripture: Psalm 83 Tune Title: TEMPEST WIND

Trumpet the Name! Praise Be to Our LORD!

Author: Calvin Seerveld Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #105 (1987) Meter: 9.9.8.8.8.8 Topics: Biblical Names & Places Aaron; Biblical Names & Places Abraham; Biblical Names & Places Egypt; Biblical Names & Places Isaac; Biblical Names & Places Jacob; Biblical Names & Places Joseph; Biblical Names & Places Moses; Biblical Names & Places Pharaoh; Biblical Names & Places Aaron; Biblical Names & Places Abraham; Biblical Names & Places Egypt; Biblical Names & Places Isaac; Biblical Names & Places Jacob; Biblical Names & Places Joseph; Biblical Names & Places Moses; Biblical Names & Places Pharaoh Scripture: Psalm 105 Languages: English Tune Title: GENEVAN 105

Song of the Prophets

Author: Michael Morgan Hymnal: Lift Up Your Hearts #53 (2013) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Topics: Biblical Names and Places Amos; Biblical Names and Places Daniel; Biblical Names and Places Ezekiel; Biblical Names and Places Habakkuk; Biblical Names and Places Haggai; Biblical Names and Places Hosea; Biblical Names and Places Isaiah; Biblical Names and Places Jeremiah; Biblical Names and Places Joel; Biblical Names and Places Jonah; Biblical Names and Places Malachi; Biblical Names and Places Micah; Biblical Names and Places Nahum; Biblical Names and Places Obadiah; Biblical Names and Places Zechariah; Biblical Names and Places Zephaniah First Line: In ages past the mighty Lord Scripture: Isaiah 1-66 Languages: English Tune Title: STAR OF COUNTY DOWN

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William Croft

1678 - 1727 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Moses Composer of "ST. ANNE" in Psalms for All Seasons William Croft, Mus. Doc. was born in the year 1677 and received his musical education in the Chapel Royal, under Dr. Blow. In 1700 he was admitted a Gentleman Extraordinary of the Chapel Boyd; and in 1707, upon the decease of Jeremiah Clarke, he was appointed joint organist with his mentor, Dr. Blow. In 1709 he was elected organist of Westminster Abbey. This amiable man and excellent musician died in 1727, in the fiftieth year of his age. A very large number of Dr. Croft's compositions remain still in manuscript. Cathedral chants of the XVI, XVII & XVIII centuries, ed. by Edward F. Rimbault, London: D. Almaine & Co., 1844

Robert Robinson

1735 - 1790 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Ebenezer Author of "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" in Lift Up Your Hearts Robert Robinson was born at Swaffham, Norfolk, in 1735. In 1749, he was apprenticed to a hairdresser, in Crutched Friars, London. Hearing a discourse preached by Whitefield on "The Wrath to Come," in 1752, he was deeply impressed, and after a period of much disquietude, he gave himself to a religious life. His own peculiar account of this change of life is as follows:--"Robertus Michaelis Marineque Robinson filius. Natus Swaffhami, comitatu Norfolciae, Saturni die Sept. 27, 1735. Renatus Sabbati die, Maii 24, 1752, per predicationem potentem Georgii Whitefield. Et gustatis doloribus renovationis duos annos mensesque septem, absolutionem plenam gratuitamque, per sanguinem pretiosum i secula seculorum. Amen." He soon after began to preach, and ministered for some time in connection with the Calvinistic Methodists. He subsequently joined the Independents, but after a short period preferred the Baptist connection. In 1761, he became pastor of a Baptist congregation at Cambridge. About the year 1780, he began to incline towards Unitarianism, and at length his people deemed it essential to procure his resignation. While arrangements for this purpose were in progress he died suddenly at Bingham, in June 1790. He wrote and published a good many works of ability. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872. ============================= Robinson, Robert, the author of "Come, Thou fount of every blessing," and "Mighty God, while angels bless Thee," was born at Swaffham, in Norfolk, on Sept. 27, 1735 (usually misgiven, spite of his own authority, as Jan. 8), of lowly parentage. Whilst in his eighth year the family migrated to Scarning, in the same county. He lost his father a few years after this removal. His widowed mother was left in sore straits. The universal testimony is that she was a godly woman, and far above her circumstances. Her ambition was to see her son a clergyman of the Church of England, but poverty forbade, and the boy (in his 15th year) was indentured in 1749 to a barber and hairdresser in London. It was an uncongenial position for a bookish and thoughtful lad. His master found him more given to reading than to his profession. Still he appears to have nearly completed his apprenticeship when he was released from his indentures. In 1752 came an epoch-marking event. Out on a frolic one Sunday with like-minded companions, he joined with them in sportively rendering a fortune-telling old woman drunk and incapable, that they might hear and laugh at her predictions concerning them. The poor creature told Robinson that he would live to see his children and grandchildren. This set him a-thinking, and he resolved more than ever to "give himself to reading”. Coincidently he went to hear George Whitefield. The text was St. Matthew iii. 7, and the great evangelist's searching sermon on "the wrath to come" haunted him blessedly. He wrote to the preacher six years later penitently and pathetically. For well nigh three years he walked in darkness and fear, but in his 20th year found "peace by believing." Hidden away on a blank leaf of one of his books is the following record of his spiritual experience, the Latin doubtless having been used to hold it modestly private:— "Robertus, Michaelis Mariseque Robinson filius. Natus Swaffhami, comitatu Norfolciae, Saturni die Sept. 27, 1735. Renatus Sabbati die, Maii 24,1752, per predicationem potentem Georgii Whitefield. Et gustatis doloribus renovationis duos annosque septem absolutionem plenam gratuitamque, per sanguinem pretiosum Jesu Christi, inveni (Tuesday, December 10, 1755) cui sit honor et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen." Robinson remained in London until 1758, attending assiduously on the ministry of Gill, Wesley, and other evangelical preachers. Early in this year he was invited as a Calvinistic Methodist to the oversight of a chapel at Mildenhall, Norfolk. Thence he removed within the year to Norwich, where he was settled over an Independent congregation. In 1759, having been invited by a Baptist Church at Cambridge (afterwards made historically famous by Robert Hall, John Foster, and others) he accepted the call, and preached his first sermon there on Jan. 8, 1759, having been previously baptized by immersion. The "call" was simply "to supply the pulpit," but he soon won such regard and popularity that the congregation again and again requested him to accept the full pastoral charge. This he acceded to in 1761, alter persuading the people to "open communion." In 1770 he commenced his abundant authorship by publishing a translation from Saurin's sermons, afterwards completed. In 1774 appeared his masculine and unanswerable Arcana, or the Principles of the Late Petitioners to Parliament for Relief in the matter of Subscription. In 1776 was published A Plea for the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ in a Pastoral Letter to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters at Cambridge. Dignitaries and divines of the Church of England united with Nonconformists in lauding this exceptionally able, scholarly, and pungently written book. In 1777 followed his History and Mystery of Good Friday. The former work brought him urgent invitations to enter the ministry of the Church of England, but he never faltered in his Nonconformity. In 1781 he was asked by the Baptists of London to prepare a history of their branch of the Christian Church. This resulted, in 1790, in his History of Baptism and Baptists, and in 1792, in his Ecclesiastical Researches. Other theological works are included in the several collective editions of his writings. He was prematurely worn out. He retired in 1790 to Birmingham, where he was somehow brought into contact with Dr. Priestley, and Unitarians have made much of this, on exceedingly slender grounds. He died June 9, 1790. His Life has been fully written by Dyer and by William Robinson respectively, both with a bias against orthodoxy. His three changes of ecclesiastical relationship show that he was somewhat unstable and impulsive. His hymns are terse yet melodious, evangelical but not sentimental, and on the whole well wrought. His prose has all…that vehement and enthusiastic glow of passion that belongs to the orator. (Cf. Dyer and Robinson as above, and Gadsby's Memoirs of Hymn-Writers(3rd ed., 1861); Belcher's Historical Sketches of Hymns; Millers Singers and Songs of the Church; Flower's Robinson's Miscellaneous Works; Annual Review, 1805, p. 464; Eclectic Review, Sept. 1861. [Rev. A. B. Grosart, D.D., LL.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Michael Praetorius

1571 - 1621 Topics: Biblical Names & Places Isaiah; Biblical Names & Places Jesse; Biblical Names & Places Mary; Biblical Names & Places Isaiah; Biblical Names & Places Jesse; Biblical Names & Places Mary Harmonizer of "ES IST EIN ROS" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Born into a staunchly Lutheran family, Michael Praetorius (b. Creuzburg, Germany, February 15, 1571; d. Wolfenbüttel, Germany, February 15, 1621) was educated at the University of Frankfort-an-der-Oder. In 1595 he began a long association with Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick, when he was appointed court organist and later music director and secretary. The duke resided in Wolfenbüttel, and Praetorius spent much of his time at the court there, eventually establishing his own residence in Wolfenbüttel as well. When the duke died, Praetorius officially retained his position, but he spent long periods of time engaged in various musical appointments in Dresden, Magdeburg, and Halle. Praetorius produced a prodigious amount of music and music theory. His church music consists of over one thousand titles, including the sixteen-volume Musae Sionae (1605-1612), which contains Lutheran hymns in settings ranging from two voices to multiple choirs. His Syntagma Musicum (1614-1619) is a veritable encyclopedia of music and includes valuable information about the musical instruments of his time. Bert Polman

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