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O Gott, mein Schöpfer, edler Fürst.--(Goed. 81.)
Based on the Apocryphal book Sirach, XXIII 1-6. It appeared in Crü. Praxis, 1648, no. 248.
English Versions:
| 1. | Creator, Father, Prince of might! Who life to me art giving, Unless Thou guid'st my life aright In vain here am I living. For while I'm living I am dead, To sin devoted ever; Whose life in mire of sin is led, The true life he hath never Beheld one moment even. |
| J. Kelly, 1867, p. 109. | |
| 2. | God, my Creator, and my Lord, Thou Father of my spirit, To me thy constant grace afford, Or life--I well may fear it:-- Nay, e'en while living were I dead, And in my sins must perish; Whose with Christ, the living bread, Shall fail his soul to nourish, Must sink to death eternal. |
| Dr. H. Mills in his Horae Germanicae, 1856. | |
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