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Free same-meter accompaniment for God Is Love (John Bowring): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) 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 BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1God is Love: His mercy brightens
- All the path in which we rove;
- Bliss He wakes, and woe He lightens:
- God is Wisdom, God is Love.
- 2Time and change are busy ever;
- Man decays, and ages move;
- But His mercy waneth never:
- God is Wisdom, God is Love.
- 3E'en the hour that darkest seemeth
- Will His changeless goodness prove;
- From the gloom His brightness streameth:
- God is Wisdom, God is Love.
- 4He with earthly cares entwineth
- Hope and comfort from above;
- Everywhere His glory shineth:
- God is Wisdom, God is Love.
- 5Amen.
About this music
BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the God Is Love page.
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