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Play “Gracious Spirit! Love Divine!”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Gracious Spirit! Love Divine! (John Stocker): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 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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  1. 1Gracious Spirit! Love divine!
  2. Let Thy light within me shine;
  3. All my guilty fears remove;
  4. Fill me with Thy heav'nly love.
  5. 2Speak Thy pard'ning grace to me,
  6. Set the burdened sinner free;
  7. Lead me to the Lamb of God,
  8. Wash me in His precious blood.
  9. 3Life and peace to me impart,
  10. Seal salvation in my heart;
  11. Dwell Thyself within my breast,
  12. Earnest of eternal rest.
  13. 4Let me never from Thee stray,
  14. Keep me in the narrow way;
  15. Fill my soul with joy divine,
  16. Keep me, Lord, forever Thine.
  17. 5Amen.

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 Gracious Spirit! Love Divine! page.

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