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Free same-meter accompaniment for He Waiteth to Be Gracious (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 6 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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  1. 1Thy ceaseless, unexhausted Love,
  2. Unmerited and free,
  3. Delights our evil to remove,
  4. And help our misery.
  5. 2Thou waitest to be gracious still;
  6. Thou dost with sinners bear;
  7. That, saved, we may Thy goodness feel,
  8. And all Thy grace declare.
  9. 3Thy goodness and Thy truth, to me,
  10. To every soul abound;
  11. A vast unfathomable sea,
  12. Where all our thoughts are drowned.
  13. 4Its streams the whole creation reach,
  14. So plenteous is the store;
  15. Enough for all, enough for each,
  16. Enough for evermore.
  17. 5Faithful, O Lord, Thy mercies are,
  18. A rock that cannot move:
  19. A thousand promises declare
  20. Thy constancy of love.
  21. 6Throughout the universe it reigns,
  22. Unalterably sure;
  23. And, while the truth of God remains,
  24. His goodness must endure.

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 He Waiteth to Be Gracious page.

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