Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 638
Title Now is to us salvation come
Composed 1713, Weimar
Key G-Major
Scoring

Organ
Movements Chorale
Category Orgelbuechlein
Event Christmas
Author of text Paulus Speratus, 1524
Text

Now is to us salvation come
By grace and purest favor.
Our works, they help us not at all,
They offer no protection.
But faith shall Jesus Christ behold,
Who hath enough done for us all
He is our intercessor.
Manuscript Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford; Music library, Leipzig; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen; Conservatory, Brussels; Yale University, New Haven; University library, Warzawa

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