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Ach Gott, lass Dir befohlen sein

Author: Josua Wegelin Appears in 2 hymnals

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Ach Gott! laß dir befohlen sein

Author: Josua Wegelin Hymnal: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #555 (1872) Lyrics: 1 Ach Gott! laß dir besohlen sein zu diesen bösen Zeiten den theuren Schah, die Kinderlein: thu sie zum Guten leiten; gar blad die Jugend wird verführt, ja, bald ein Alter sich vereint in diesen letzten Zeiten. 2 Dein Vatertreu sie mir behüt dein Gnad sie mir regiere: dein guter Geist leit ihr Gemüth, das Niemand sie verführe: dir, Herr, ich sie befehlen thu, die Engelwach gieb ihnen zu, das keine Plag sie rühre. 3 Und wil man dir,Herr, dienen soll in allen dreien St¨nden, so wach sie deiner Weisheit voll, daß Web und Weis sie finden, zu dienen dir in der Gemein; du, Herr, am besten weist allen, ihr Thun zu Nutz anwenden. 4 Dir, mein Gott, ich erziehe sie, in deiner Furcht und Treue; schaff, das kein Arbeit, Sorg und Müh ins künstig mich gereue, sondern vielmehr in Ewigkeit meiner Kinder Gottseligkeit mich inniglich erfreue. Topics: Standes- und Berufslieder; State and Profession Songs Languages: German

Ach Gott, lass Dir befohlen sein

Hymnal: Kirchenbuch der Ev.- Luth.-Christus Gemeinde, in New York #d9 (1884) Languages: German

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Josua Wegelin

1604 - 1640 Author of "Ach Gott, lass Dir befohlen sein" Wegelin, Josua, D.D., son of Johann Wegelin, or Wegelein, then superintendent (Ephorus) of the Evangelical college at Augsburg, was born at Augsburg Jan. 11, 1604. After studying at the University of Tübingen (M.A. 1626), he was for a short time pastor at Budweiler, and was appointed in 1627 fourth diaconus of the Franciscan (Barfüsser) church at Augsburg. In 1629, along with 13 other Evangelical pastors, he was compelled to leave Augsburg by the decree of Restitution enacted by the Emperor Ferdinand III. After Gustavus Adolphus had become master of the city, in 1632, Wegelin was recalled to the Barfüsser Kirche as archidiaconus. In 1633 he was appointed preacher at the Hospital Church of the Holy Ghost, but in 1635, as a result of the battle of Nordlingen (Sept., 1634), he was again forced to flee from Augsburg. He found refuge at Pressburg, in Hungary, where he became pastor, and afterwards Senior, Inspector, and Doctor of Theology. He died at Pressburg, Sept. 14, 1640 (Koch, iii. 169; Goedeke's Grundriss, vol. iii. 1887, p 161, &c). Wegelin's hymns are simple and natural, and are the productions of an earnest, true-hearted and good pastor rather than of a skilful poet. Goedeke, as above, gives lists of their first lines from his (1) Augspurger Bet Büchlein, Nürnberg, 1636, and from his (2) Hand-Land-un Stand-Büchlein, Nürnberg, 1637 [Gottingen Library]. Some 20 of his hymns were included in J. M. Dilherr's Gesang-Buch, Nürnberg, 1654, and other collections of the 17th century. The only hymn by Wegelin which has passed into English is:— Allein auf Christi Himmelfahrt. Ascension. This is his most popular hymn. First published 1636 in 3 stanzas of 7 lines entitled, "iv. Short Psalm of Praise on the Ascension of Christ; " repeated in Dilherr's Gesang-Buch, 1654, p. 394. In the Lüneburg Gesang-Buch, 1661, No. 112, it is recast and begins, "Auf Christi Himmel-Fart allein.” Translated as:— 1. Raise your Devotion, mortal Tongues. By J. C. Jacobi, in his Psalt. Germanica, 1722, p. 24; repeated, altered, in his 2nd ed., 1732, p. 41. 2. Since Christ is gone to heaven, His home. This is a good translation from the second form, by Miss Winkworth, in her Lyra Germanica, 2nd ser., 1858, p. 47; and in Schaff s Christ in Song, 1869, p. 314. In her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 64, it is altered in metre. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)