Trinity
We All Believe in One True God
- Words:
- Medieval text expanded by Martin Luther, 1524. Translation composite.
- Music:
- 'Wir Glauben all an Einen Gott, Schoepfer' or 'Apostolic Creed' Medieval tune altered
- Setting:
- "Eisenach Kirchenconserenz", G.v. Tucher et. al. , Stuttgart, 1854.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
- 1We all believe in one true God,Who created earth and heaven,The Father, who to us in loveHath the right of children given.He both soul and body feedeth,All we need He doth provide us;He through snares and perils leadeth,Watching that no harm betide us.He careth for us day and night,All things are governed by His might.
- 2We all believe in Jesus Christ,His own Son, our Lord, possessingAn equal Godhead, throne, and might,Source of every grace and blessing.Born of Mary, virgin mother,By the power of the Spirit,Made true man, our elder Brother,That the lost might life inherit;Was crucified for sinful menAnd raised by God to life again.
- 3We all confess the Holy Ghost,Who sweet grace and comfort givethAnd with the Father and the SonIn eternal glory liveth;Who the Church, His own creation,Keeps in unity of spirit.Here forgiveness and salvationDaily come through Jesus' merit.All flesh shall rise, and we shall beIn bliss with God eternally.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1525, the words are in 28 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.