Baptismal Life
All Who Believe and Are Baptized
- Words:
- Thomas Hansen Kingo, 1689. Translation by George Alfred Taylor Rygh, 1909, alt.
- Music:
- 'Es ist das Heil uns Kommen Her' German circa 1400 from Etlich Christlich Lider, Wittenberg, 1524.
- Setting:
- "Mehrstimmiges ChoralBuch", 1906.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 8 7
- 1All who believe and are baptizedshall see the Lord's salvation;baptized into the death of Christ,they are a new creation.through Christ's redemption they shall standamong the glorious heav'nly bandof every tribe and nation.
- 2With one accord, O God, we pray:grant us thy Holy Spirit;look thou on our infirmitythrough Jesus' blood and merit.Grant us to grow in grace each daythat by this sacrament we mayeternal life inherit.
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In the hymnals
- The words are in 35 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.