"Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above"

Johann Jakob Schuetz (1675), translated by Frances E. Cox

A hymn in praise of God, written by a lawyer? Will wonders never cease!

I don’t have much to say about the author of our splendid Hymn of the Week, Johann Jakob Schuetz. He isn’t to be confused with the famous organist and composer, Heinrich Schuetz, the man whose genius bore fullest fruit in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, in the next century. I c…