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@TPraise be to You Lord Jesus (Tempo 120)
@TA new Evangelical song in all Crosses for Christian comfort Inspired esp. from Matt. 10 and 1 Peter 2.
@THeinrich Vogtherr~1526 translated Matthew Carver~2010 New Tune and refined by Darkijah~2021:

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Praise be to You, Lord Je-sus,
And to Your migh-ty name!
Your pow'r from dark-ness frees us,
Man's craft it puts to shame.
You bring us Chris-tians to Your Word:
Now eve-ry-where shines bright-ly
What was so long ob-scured.

Oh Hel-per of the low-ly,
With-out You, help is lost!
Have mer-cy, Sa-vior ho-ly!
See what a hea-vy cost
We paid to wear the murd'-rous snares
Of Rome's de-ceit-ful mer-chants,
With all their hel-lish wares.

As ho-ly Pe-ter warned us,
They made us mer-chan-dise,
And stole Your Word and scorned us,
By tricks and cun-ning lies.
And now that You have brought it back,
They call it de-vils' doc-trines,
And wage their grim at-tacks.

They fain would ter-ri-fy us
With pa-pal bull and sword,
And Spi-rit's aim de-ny us,
And keep His Word un-heard:
Oh, let their le-gions be de-ployed:
God still shall be the vic-tor,
And all His foes de-stroyed.

So fear not, faith-ful Chri-stians,
Take com-fort in Your Lord:
See how Christ's am-mu-ni-tions
Are tra-pling Ba-al's horde!
See how His line can-not be breached!
De-spite their eve-ry ef-fort,
His Word is free-ly preached!

But, hea-ring our con-fes-sion
Of Christ the Sa-vior true,
The world, with great ag-gres-sion
Makes scorn and shame en-sue,
And so we soon must bear the cross,
And here is its be-gin-ning,
In God's most ho-ly house.

So lift your voi-ces loud-ly,
March glad-ly to the plain,
Pro-claim your Sa-vior proud-ly
Heed nei-ther life nor pain.
For Je-sus Christ must be con-fessed:
Through death and dread af-flic-tion
We pass to life and rest.

Search not for words of me-rit,
When to their courts con-ferred,
For in that day God's Spi-rit
Will teach your tongue the word;
And none this Word can con-tra-dict.
So stand with Spi-rit rea-dy
When they your flesh af-flict.

If we with God would glo-ry
And reign with Christ on earth,
His cross we now must car-ry
And wear His crown of pain.
No ser-vant is a-bove his lord,
The first born gone be-fore us
Our Sa-vior Light a-dored.

From eve to morn God chas-tens
The souls that He holds dear,
And on His Chil-dren ha-stens
What first as griefs ap-pear:
Yet by the cross He proves us true,
Like gold with-in a fur-nace,
And, faith-ful leads us through.

Thus did the ear-liest Chris-tians
Pass on through blood to life:
God grant us the pro-vi-sions
To join them in the strife!
The mar-tyrs' bo-dies mere-ly show
That foes can kill the bo-dy,
The soul no death shall know.

Yea, let us fear and bless Him
The Judge who soul can kill
Be-fore the world con-fess Him,
Though we be slaugh-tered still,
For He a-lone can be our stay
Who grants us pass or judg-ment
U-pon that fi-nal day.

May we for Him sur-ren-der
to death our life and all,
And find through our De-fen-der
True life in hea-ven's hall.
Oh, may He make us bold to stand,
For all is lost with-out Him,
And vic'-try hid from sight.