Bartholomew Ringwaldt
Ringwaldt
was the author of the hymn so well
known in England under the mistaken title of
"Luther's Hymn,"--
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"Great God, what do I see and hear,
The end of things created,"--
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which is in fact a quotation rather freely handled
from a celebrated hymn of his on the Second Advent
to judgment. He was a native of Frankfort-on-the-Oder;
a man of cheerful, courageous, genial spirit,
whose life was passed as the pastor of a little place
called Langfeldt, where he died in 1598. But his
many hymns and religious works strongly illustrate
what has been said of the tone of feeling at that
time, for they are generally penitential, or filled with
warnings of the coming judgment. Among the best
of the former is the following:--
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