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Free same-meter accompaniment for God and His Church; or, Grace and Glory (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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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- 1Great God, attend, while Zion sings
- The joy that from Thy presence springs;
- To spend one day with Thee on earth
- Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.
- 2Might I enjoy the meanest place
- Within Thine house, O God of grace,
- Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power,
- Should tempt my feet to leave Thy door.
- 3God is our sun, He makes our day;
- God is our shield, He guards our way
- From all the assaults of hell and sin,
- From foes without and foes within.
- 4All needful grace will God bestow,
- And crown that grace with glory too;
- He gives us all things, and withholds
- No real good from upright souls.
- 5O God our King, whose sovereign sway
- The glorious hosts of heaven obey,
- And devils at Thy presence flee,
- Blest is the man that trusts in Thee.
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 God and His Church; or, Grace and Glory page.
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