24 OUR HYMNS I
Dorset, Jan. 17, 1571, at the session held there, " By William Kethe, minister and preacher of God s Word."
" The whole Booke of Psalmes collected into Englyshe Meter, by Thomas Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and others, 1564," of which there is a copy, in the British Museum, contains sixty-two psalms by Hopkins, but the psalm given as the 100th is not that given as his in the "New Congregational," but an inferior production. In a later Psalter (1606), which gives the initials of the writers to the psalms, there are two renderings of this psalm, and each without initials. The latter of these is the rendering in the "New Congregational" exactly as it stands there. In this Psalter, " J. H." is put to Hopkins psalms, and " W. K." to Kethe s, and as there is no name to this rendering, we conclude that the author cannot be ascertained with certainty. Perhaps we may venture to say the rendering is not Hopkins , but may be Kethe s.
��BARTHOLOMEW KINGWALDT.
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E.INGWALDT was born at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, in 1530, and was a faithful Lutheran pastor at Langfeld, in Prussia, where he died 1598. Hi-; hymns arc of great excellence, and much resem ble Luther s in their simplicity and power. Several of them were written to comfort himself and others in the sufferings they endured from famine, pestilence, fire, and floods. In 1581, he published " Hymns for the Sundays and Festivals of the whole Year." He also wrote two other works.
" Great God, what do I see and hear ?" No. 420.
This hymn, often erroneously attributed to Luther, was written in imitation of the well known, oft-translated ancient Latin hymn, "Dies iras, dies ilia," which was written by the Franciscan, Thomas Calano, who died in 1253. Ringwaldt s hymn appeared in 1585.
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