{"id":1484,"date":"2017-07-18T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T08:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luther2017.procant.be\/?page_id=1484"},"modified":"2020-11-21T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:09:09","slug":"luthers-first-song-ein-neues-lied-1523","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luther2017.procant.be\/luthers-first-song-ein-neues-lied-1523\/","title":{"rendered":"Luthers first song: <i>Ein neues Lied <\/i> (1523)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Uxbs_Vjg-g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Info below extracted from an article by Th. M. Akerboom,\u00a0<em>A new song we raise<\/em>:\u00a0 available as html <a href=\"http:\/\/dick.wursten.be\/A_new_song_akerboom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This first song by Luther was not a hymn for liturgical use, but\u00a0a ballad, written in response to the martyrdom of Hendrik Voes and Johan van (den) Essen. Luther describes the death of his fellow Augustinians, who were the first to give their lives for adhering to Luthers teaching. The song shows clear parallels with the martyrs\u2019 hymns from the first centuries of the Church. Then too it was not the intention of the writers to raise a monument for the martyrs, nor to bemoan their fate, but &#8211; on the contrary &#8211; to thank God and praise Him for the exemplars of loyalty and resolution that He had given to his Church. The young men are litterally sanctified, proclaimed to be &#8216;saints&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Translation below: from <em>Luthers Works<\/em>, Vol. 53, <em>Liturgy and Hymns<\/em>. Philadelphia, 1965, 214-216.<br \/>\nNB:It is not a literal translation. The original text can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/dick.wursten.be\/martelarenAntwerpen.htm#in_neues_Lied_wir_heben_an\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0(with a translation into Dutch) and <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ein_neues_Lied_wir_heben_an\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> (original orthography). Background on the melody used can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/luther.wursten.be\/ein-neues-lied-wir-heben-an-muziek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1500 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/luther2017.procant.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/neueslied_melodie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/luther2017.procant.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/neueslied_melodie.jpg 800w, https:\/\/luther2017.procant.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/neueslied_melodie-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/luther2017.procant.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/neueslied_melodie-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 85vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new song of the two martyrs of Christ burned in Brussels by the Sophists of Louvain<\/p>\n<p>[1] A new song here shall be begun \u2013<br \/>\nThe Lord God help our singing!<br \/>\nOf what our God himself hath done,<br \/>\nPraise, honour to him bringing.<br \/>\nAt Brussels in the Netherlands<br \/>\nBy two boys, martyrs youthful<br \/>\nHe showed the wonders of his hands<br \/>\nWhom he with favour truthful<br \/>\nSo richly hath adorned.<\/p>\n<p>[2] The first right fitly John was named,<br \/>\nSo rich he in God\u2019s favour;<br \/>\nHis brother, Henry &#8211; one unblamed,<br \/>\nWhose salt lost not its savour.<br \/>\nFrom this world they are gone away,<br \/>\nThe diadem they\u2019ve gained;<br \/>\nHonest, like God\u2019s good children, they<br \/>\nFor his word life disdained,<br \/>\nAnd have become his martyrs.<\/p>\n<p>[3] The old arch-fiend did them immure<br \/>\nWith terrors did enwrap them.<br \/>\nHe bade them God\u2019s dear Word abjure,<br \/>\nWith cunning he would trap them:<br \/>\nFrom Louvain many sophists came,<br \/>\nIn their curst nets to take them,<br \/>\nBy him are gathered to the game:<br \/>\nThe Spirit fools doth make them &#8211;<br \/>\nThey could get nothing by it.<\/p>\n<p>[4] Oh! they sang sweet, and they sang sour;<br \/>\nOh! they tried every double;<br \/>\nThe boys they stood firm as a tower,<br \/>\nAnd mocked the sophists\u2019 trouble.<br \/>\nThe ancient foe it filled with hate<br \/>\nThat he was thus defeated<br \/>\nBy two such youngsters &#8211; he, so great!<br \/>\nHis wrath grew sevenfold heated,<br \/>\nHe laid his plans to burn them.<\/p>\n<p>[5] Their cloister-garments off they tore,<br \/>\nTook off their consecrations;<br \/>\nAll this the boys were ready for,<br \/>\nThey said Amen with patience.<br \/>\nTo God their Father they gave thanks<br \/>\nThat they would soon be rescued<br \/>\nFrom Satan\u2019s scoffs and mumming pranks,<br \/>\nWith which, in falsehood masked,<br \/>\nThe world he so befooleth.<\/p>\n<p>[6] Then gracious God did grant to them<br \/>\nTo pass true priesthood\u2019s border,<br \/>\nAnd offer up themselves to him,<br \/>\nAnd enter Christ\u2019s own order,<br \/>\nUnto the world to die outright,<br \/>\nWith falsehood made a schism,<br \/>\nAnd come to heaven all pure and white,<br \/>\nTo monkery be the besom,<br \/>\nAnd leave men\u2019s toys behind them.<\/p>\n<p>[7] They wrote for them a paper small,<br \/>\nAnd made them read it over;<br \/>\nThe parts they showed them therein all<br \/>\nWhich their belief did cover.<br \/>\nTheir greatest fault was saying this:<br \/>\n\u201cIn God we should trust solely;<br \/>\nFor man is always full of lies,<br \/>\nWe should distrust him wholly:\u201d<br \/>\nSo they must burn to ashes.<\/p>\n<p>[8] Two huge great fires they kindled then,<br \/>\nThe boys they carried to them;<br \/>\nGreat wonder seized on every man,<br \/>\nFor with contempt they view them.<br \/>\nTo all with joy they yielded quite,<br \/>\nWith singing and God-praising;<br \/>\nThe sophs had little appetite<br \/>\nFor these new things so dazing.<br \/>\nWhich God was thus revealing.<br \/>\nMust hear go gladly singing.<\/p>\n<p>[9] But yet their lies they will not leave,<br \/>\nTo trim and dress the murther;<br \/>\nThe fable false which out they gave,<br \/>\nShows conscience grinds them further.<br \/>\nGod\u2019s holy ones, e\u2019en after death,<br \/>\nThey still go on belying;<br \/>\nThey say that with their latest breath,<br \/>\nThe boys, in act of dying,<br \/>\nRepented and recanted.<\/p>\n<p>[10] Let them lie on for evermore \u2013<br \/>\nNo refuge so is reared;<br \/>\nFor us, we thank our God therefore,<br \/>\nHis word has reappeared.<br \/>\nEven at the door is summer nigh,<br \/>\nThe winter now is ended,<br \/>\nThe tender flowers come out and spy;<br \/>\nHis hand when once extended<br \/>\nWithdraws not till he\u2019s finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Info below extracted from an article by Th. M. Akerboom,\u00a0A new song we raise:\u00a0 available as html here] This first song by Luther was not a hymn for liturgical use, but\u00a0a ballad, written in response to the martyrdom of Hendrik Voes and Johan van (den) Essen. 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