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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Living and Dead Faith (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 4 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
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- 1Deluded souls that dream of heaven,
- And make their empty boast
- Of inward joys and sins forgiven,
- While they are slaves to lust!
- 2Vain are our fancies' airy flights,
- If faith be cold and dead;
- None but a living power unites
- To Christ, the living Head;
- 3A faith that changes all the heart,
- A faith that works by love;
- That bids all sinful joys depart,
- And lifts the thoughts above.
- 4Faith must obey our Father’s will,
- As well as trust His grace:
- A pardoning God requires us still
- To perfect holiness.
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the A Living and Dead Faith page.
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