
Johann Sebastian Bach
| BWV | 647 | 
| Title | If thou but suffer God to guide thee | 
| Composed | 1747, Leipzig | 
| Key | C-Minor | 
| Scoring | Organ  | 
    
| Movements | Chorale | 
| Category | Schuebler Chorales | 
| Event | Lent | 
| Author of text | Georg Neumark, 1657 | 
| Text | 
      1. 
          If thou but suffer God to guide thee, 2. God knows full well when 
          times of gladness  | 
    
| Manuscript | Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford; Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven |