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Free same-meter accompaniment for Christ's Commission (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 6 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 ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Come, happy souls, approach your God
- With new melodious songs;
- Come, tender to Almighty grace
- The tributes of your tongues.
- 2So strange, so boundless was the love
- That pitied dying men,
- The Father sent his equal Son
- To give him life again.
- 3Thy hands, dear Jesus, were not armed
- With a revenging rod:
- No hard commission to perform
- The vengeance of a God.
- 4But all was mercy, all was mild,
- And wrath forsook the throne,
- When Christ on the kind errand came,
- And brought salvation down.
- 5Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds,
- And wipe your sorrows dry;
- Trust in the mighty Savior's name,
- And you shall never die.
- 6See, dearest Lord, our willing souls
- Accept thine offered grace,
- We bless the great Redeemer's love,
- And give the Father praise.
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 Christ's Commission page.
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