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Play “Balm in Gilead, and a Good Physician There”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Balm in Gilead, and a Good Physician There (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 3 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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- 1Deep are the wounds which sin has made:
- Where shall the sinner find a cure?
- In vain, alas! is nature's aid;
- The work exceeds all nature's power.
- 2There is a great Physician near:
- Look up, O fainting soul! and live:
- See, in his heavenly smiles appear
- Such ease as nature can not give.
- 3See, in the Saviour's dying blood
- Life, health, and bliss abundant flow;
- 'Tis only this dear, sacred flood
- Can ease thy pain and heal thy woe.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Balm in Gilead, and a Good Physician There page.
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