The hymn is sung to the tune "Helft mir Gott's Güte." Here are the first two musical phrases:
In the first verse, the text is "To God the anthem raising, / Sing, Christians, great and small." "Raising" is sung to an ascending group of notes (A Bb C), so there's a sense of the word's meaning.
In the second verse, the text is "Let us consider rightly / His mercies manifold." One of the syllables of "manifold" is sung with an accidental (an F#), and this foreign tonality gives a sense of that variety. In the third verse, the text is "To Church and State He granted / His peace in ev'ry place," and a similar feature is present with the accidental in "ev'ry," giving a sense of the breadth of "ev'ry place."
Throughout the text, there are also a number of merisms: "great and small," "one and all," "far and near," and "The great ones and the small."
