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Free same-meter accompaniment for Holiness and Grace (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.
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- 1So let our lips and lives express
- The holy gospel we profess;
- So let our works and virtues shine,
- To prove the doctrine all divine.
- 2Thus shall we best proclaim abroad
- The honors of our Saviour God;
- When His salvation reigns within,
- And grace subdues the pow'r of sin.
- 3Our flesh and sense must be denied,
- And passion, envy, lust, and pride;
- While justice, temperance, truth, and love,
- Our inward piety approve.
- 4His promise bears our spirits up,
- While we expect that blessèd hope,
- The bright appearance of the Lord,
- And faith stands leaning on His Word.
- 5Amen.
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 Holiness and Grace page.
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