Sing praise to God who reigns above

Sing praise to God who reigns above. Johann Jakob Schütz* (1640-1690), translated by Frances Elizabeth Cox* (1812-1897). Schütz’s hymn, beginning ‘Sei Lob und Ehr’ dem höchsten Gut’*, was published in his Christliches Gedenckbüchlein, zu Beförderung eines anfangenden neuen Lebens (‘A little Christ-like book of commemoration, for the conveying of a beginning of a new life’), published at Frankfurt-am-Main in 1675. It was headed ‘Hymn of Thanksgiving’. Cox’s translation of eight of the nine stanzas (omitting the last) was made for Orby Shipley*’s Lyra Eucharistica (Second Edition, 1864), and printed in her Hymns from the German in the same year. It was included in a six-stanza text in the...