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Play “Depth of Mercy! Can There Be?”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Depth of Mercy! Can There Be? (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Depth of mercy! can there be
- Mercy still reserved for me?
- Can my God His wrath forbear?
- Me, the chief of sinners spare?
- Me, the chief of sinners spare?
- 2I have long withstood His grace;
- Long provoked Him to His face;
- Would not hearken to His calls;
- Grieved Him by a thousand falls,
- Grieved Him by a thousand falls.
- 3Lord, incline me to repent;
- Let me now my fall lament;
- Deeply my revolt deplore,
- Weep, believe, and sin no more,
- Weep, believe, and sin no more.
- 4Still for me the Savior stands,
- Shows His wounds, and spreads His hands;
- God is love! I know, I feel;
- Jesus weeps, and loves me still,
- Jesus weeps, and loves me still.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Depth of Mercy! Can There Be? page.
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