Baptismal Life
Baptized Into Thy Name Most Holy
- Words:
- Johann Jakob Rambach, 1734. Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1863 and August Crull, 1884.
- Music:
- 'O Dass Ich Tausend Zungen Hätte (Dretzel)' Kornelius Heinrich Dretzel, 1731.
- Setting:
- "Mehrstimmiges ChoralBuch", 1906.
- Metre:
- 9 8 9 8 8 8
- 1Baptized into Thy Name most holy,O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,I claim a place, though weak and lowly,Among Thy seed, Thy chosen host.Buried with Christ and dead to sin,Thy Spirit now shall live within.
- 2My loving Father, here doth take meTo be henceforth His child and heir;My faithful Savior, now doth make meThe fruit of all His sorrows share;My Comforter will comfort meWhen darkest clouds around I see.
- 3And I have vowed to fear and love TheeAnd to obey Thee, Lord, alone;I felt Thy Holy Spirit move me,I dared to pledge myself Thine own,Renouncing sin to keep the faithAnd war with evil unto death.
- 4My faithful God, Thou failest never,Thy cov'nant surely will abide;Oh, cast me not away foreverShould I transgress it on my side!But if I fall hide not Thy face,Restore Thy child, Lord, by Thy Grace.
- 5Yes, all I am and love most dearly,To Thee I offer now the whole;O let me make my vows sincerely,Take full possession of my soul!Let naught within me, naught I own,Serve any will save Thine alone.
- 6Hence, Prince of darkness, hence forever,For I belong now to my God!'Tis true, I sinned; but my dear Savior Hathcleansed me with His holy blood.Away, vain world, sin, leave me now,I turn from you; God hears my vow.
- 7And never let my purpose falter,O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,But keep me faithful to Thine altar,Till Thou shalt call me from my post;So unto Thee I live and die,And praise Thee evermore on high.
Scripture
Topics
- Atonement
- Baptism
- Blood
- Christian Life
- Commitment
- Conversion
- Discipleship
- Faithfulness
- Father
- Following Jesus, In Faith
- Following Jesus, Sanctification
- Forgiveness
- God, Faithfulness of
- God, Mercy of
- Guidance
- Holiness
- Holy Spirit
- Invitation (Faithful's to God)
- Invitation (God's to Us)
- Jesus
- Joy
- Obedience
- Promises (see also Gospel)
- Salvation
- Security
- Submission (see also Following Jesus, God - Providence of, Trust)
- Trinity
- Trust
In the hymnals
- Written in 1723, the words are in 48 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, O Dass Ich Tausend Zungen Hätte (Dretzel), is in 43 hymnals. The tune →
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.