httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=st6gRfIr86Y<\/p>\n
“A New Song Shall Now Be Begun” – Composed by Martin Luther 1523
\nFrom Martin Luther: Hymns, Ballads, Chants, Truth page 8-13:<\/p>\n
On July 1, 1523, the infant Reformation saw executed in the Brussels market place Heinrich Voes and Johann Esch, two Belgian Augustinian monks and followers of Luther. Since wandering minstrels and their ballads served as the mass media of the day, Luther wrote this first hymn of the Reformation as a ballad recounting the martyrdom of these witnesses. First appearing in 1523 in broadsheet for, it, along with Luther’s tune, was published in Johann Walter’s 1524 Wittenberg hymnal.<\/p>\n
Tr. F. Samuel Janzow, 1913 2001
\nSetting by Carl Schalk
\nPublisher Concordia Publishing House (1982)<\/p>\n
LYRICS for A NEW SONG SHALL NOW BE BEGUN
\nBy Martin Luther<\/p>\n
1. A new song now shall be begun,
\nLord, help us raise the banner
\nOf praise for all the Goad has done,
\nFor which we give Him honor.
\nAt Brussels in the Netherlands
\nGod proved himself most truthful
\nAnd poured his gifts from open hands
\nOn two lads, martyrs youthful
\nThrough who He showed His power.<\/p>\n
2. One was named John, a name to show
\nHe stood in God’s high favor.
\nHis brother Henry, well we know,
\nWas salt of truest savor.
\nThis world they now have left behind
\nAnd wear bright crowns of glory.
\nThese sons of God had fixed the mind
\nUpon the Gospel story,
\nFor which they died as martyrs.<\/p>\n
3. From where the Foe in ambush lay,
\nHe sent to have them taken
\nTo force them God’s Word to betray
\nAnd make their faith be shaken.
\nLouvain sent clever men, who came
\nIn twisting nets to break them.
\nHard played they at their crooked game,
\nBut from faith could not shake them.
\nGod make their tricks look foolish.<\/p>\n
4. Oh, they sang sweet, and they sang sour,
\nThey tried all their devices.
\nThe youths stood firmly like a tow’r
\nAnd overcame each crisis.
\nIn filled the Foe with raging hate
\nTo know himself defeated
\nBy these two lads, and he so great.
\nHis rage flared high, and heated
\nHis plan to see them burning.<\/p>\n
5. Their cloister-garments off they tore,
\nTook off their consecrations;
\nAll this the youths were ready for,
\nThey said Amen with patience.
\nThey gave to God the Father thanks
\nThat He would them deliver
\nFrom Satan’s scoffing and the pranks
\nThat make men quake and shiver
\nWhen he comes masked and raging.<\/p>\n
6. The God they worshipped granted them
\nA priesthood in Christ’s order.
\nThey offered up themselves to Him
\nAnd crossed His kingdom’s border
\nBy dying to the world outright,
\nWith ev’ry falsehood breaking.
\nThey came to heave pure and white;
\nAll monkery forsaking,
\nThey turned away from evil.<\/p>\n
7. A paper given them to sign –
\nAnd carefully they read it –
\nSpelled out their faith in ev’ry line
\nAs they confessed and said it.
\nTheir greatest fault was to be wise
\nANd say, “We trust God solely,
\nFor human wisdom is all lies,
\nWe should distrust it wholly.”
\nThis brought them to the burning.<\/p>\n
8. Then two great fires were set alight,
\nWhile men amazed did ponder
\nThe sight of youths who showed no fright;
\nTheir calm filled men with wonder.
\nThey stepped into the flames with song.
\nGod’s grace and glory praising.
\nThe logic choppers puzzled long
\nBut found these new thing dazing
\nWhich God was here displaying.<\/p>\n
9. They now regret their deed of shame,
\nWould like to slough it over;
\nThey dare not glory in their blame,
\nBut put it under cover.
\nThey feel their gnawing infamy,
\nTheir friends hear them deplore it.
\nGod’s spirit cannot silent be,
\nBut on Cain’s guilty forehead
\nHe marks the blood of Abel.<\/p>\n
10. The ashed of the lads remain
\nAnd scatter to all places.
\nThey rise from roadway, street, and lane
\nTo mark the guilty faces.
\nThe Foe had used a bloody had
\nTo keep these voices quiet,
\nBut they resist in ev’ry land
\nThe Foe’s rage and defy it.
\nThe ashes go on singing.<\/p>\n
11. And yet men still keep up their lies
\nTo justify the killing;
\nThe Foe with falsehood ever tries
\nTo give the guilt clean billing.
\nSince these young martyrs’ holy death
\nMen still continue trying
\nTo say, the youths with their last breath
\nRenounced their faith when dying
\nAnd finally recanted.<\/p>\n
12. Let men heap falsehoods all around,
\nTheir sure defeat is spawning.
\nWe thank our God the Word is found,
\nWe stand it its bright dawning.
\nOur summer now is at the door,
\nThe winter’s frost has ended,
\nSoft buds the flowers more and more,
\nBy our dear Gard’ner tended
\nUntil He reaps His harvest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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