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Play “Christ's Compassion to the Weak”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Christ's Compassion to the Weak (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 5 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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- 1With joy we meditate the grace
- Of our High Priest above;
- His heart is made of tenderness,
- And yearns with pitying love.
- 2Touched with a sympathy within,
- He knows our feeble frame;
- He knows what sore temptations mean,
- For He hath felt the same.
- 3He in the days of feeble flesh
- Poured our His cries and tears;
- And, though exalted, feels afresh
- What every member bears.
- 4He'll never quench the smoking flax,
- But raise it to a flame;
- The bruised reed He never breaks,
- Nor scorns the meanest name.
- 5Then let our humble faith address
- His mercy and His power;
- We shall obtain delivering grace
- In the distressing hour.
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 Compassion to the Weak page.
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