He practiced at Nauraburg, in Saxony, as Clerk of the Assizes and Counselor. Homburg, Ernst Christoph, was born in the year 1605, at Mihla, close Eisenach. Some 150 (one hundred fifty) of his song of praise texts were published in his Geistliche Lieder.
A lawyer by profession, he wrote songs of praise to express and strengthen his own belief rather than for public use. After a problematic time of family sickness he experienced a sacred conversion, and his poetry took a more serious turn. He described this eight-stanza text as a 'song of praise, of thanksgiving to his Redeemer and Savior for his bitter sufferings.' In early life, Ernst Homburg was a writer of love and drinking songs. Naumberg, Germany, in the year 1681) wrote most of his songs of praise for his own faithfulness. Mihla, near Eisenach, Germany, year 1605 d.
