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95: Gott Lob! nun ist erschollen.

Gott Lob! nun ist erschollen.--(Goed. 95.)

[Thanksgiving for the Proclamation of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 after the Thirty Years' War.]

It appeared in Crü. Praxis, 1653, no. 401, 1656, no. 409, in 6 stanzas of 12 lines; Wackernagel: no. 64; Bachmann: no. 84; Unv. L. S.: 1851, no. 589.

English Versions:

Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Ger., 1858, p. 156, and her Chorale Book, 1863. Stanzas I, V, VI, form no. 49, in M. W. Stryker's Christian Chorals, 1885.

2. Praise God! for forth hath sounded.

J. Kelly, 1867, p. 251.