Freylinghausen stu­died the­ol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Jena (1689), and Halle (1692). In 1695 he start­ed work at the or­phan­age and Pä­da­go­gi­um (edu­ca­tion­al in­sti­tute) of Halle an der Saale. He mar­ried the di­rect­or’s daugh­ter and him­self be­came di­rect­or in 1727. He was al­so pas­tor at St. Ul­rich Church in Halle.

Freylinghausen wrote and com­posed 44 hymns. In 1697, he pub­lished the first edi­tion of his Geist­reich­es Ge­sang­buch (Spirit­ual Hym­nal). The 1704 edi­tion in­clud­ed 683 hymns (83 of them by Paul Ger­hardt) with 174 hymn tunes. This was the most im­port­ant hymn col­lect­ion of the Pi­e­tis­tic per­i­od of Lu­ther­an hym­no­dy. In the fol­low­ing de­cades, more hymns were add­ed, and by 1741 it had 1,581 hymns with 597 tunes.

• Frost, p. 671
• Hughes, pp. 395-96
• Julian, pp. 395-96
• Stulken, pp. 132-33
• Telford, p. 328

1. Das Ist Meine Freude
2. Dir, Dir, Je­ho­vah
3. Gott Sei Dank durch Alle Welt
4. Irene
5. Jesus Ist das Schönste Licht
6. Lobe Den Herr­en, O Meine Seele
7. Lusatia
8. Macht Hoch die Tür
9. Sebastian