[5] Purcell revised the setting up to around 1680, represented in a copied scorebook at Oxford's Christ Church, which was begun by Edward Lowe and continued by Richard Goodson.

[5] In 1681 at the latest, Purcell copied revised versions of other funeral sentences in a book of his collected works, leaving room for "Thou knowest" but not including it.

Around the same time, he also copied works by earlier composers such as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, and Christopher Gibbons, possibly to study their polyphony.

[5] The setting of the sentence in the funeral music for Queen Mary[7] was published by E. C. Schirmer in 1925 and reprinted in the first "Concord Series" collection of forty anthems for use in the Protestant churches, edited by Archibald T. Davison and Henry Wilder Foote.

O holy and most merciful Saviour, Thou most worthy Judge eternal, Suffer us not at our last hour, For any pains of death to fall away from Thee.

In the collection Henry Purcell (1659–1695) / Complete Sacred Music – Anthems, Services and Devotional Songs, several versions of the sentences are recorded.