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Free same-meter accompaniment for Baptism of Grown Persons (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
Sung here to OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1'Twas the commission of our Lord,
- Go, teach the nations, and baptize;
- The nations have received the word,
- Since he ascended to the skies.
- 2He sits upon th' eternal hills,
- With grace and pardon in his hands,
- And sends his covenant with the seals,
- To bless the distant heathen lands.
- 3Repent and be baptized, he saith,
- In token of forgiven sins;
- And thus our sense assists our faith,
- And shows us what the gospel means.
- 4Hence, we engage ourselves to thee,
- And seal our cov'nant with the Lord;
- Oh, may the great eternal Three
- In heaven our solemn vows record.
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 Baptism of Grown Persons page.
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