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Play “I love the volume of Thy Word”

Free same-meter accompaniment for I love the volume of Thy Word (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) in four-part harmony, 4 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. 1I love the volume of Thy Word:
  2. What light and joy these leaves afford
  3. To souls benighted and distrest!
  4. Thy precepts guide my doubtful way;
  5. Thy fear forbids my feet to stray;
  6. Thy promise leads my heart to rest.
  7. 2From the discoveries of Thy Law
  8. The perfect rules of life I draw;
  9. These are my study and delight:
  10. Not honey so invites the taste,
  11. Nor gold that hath the furnace passed
  12. Appears so pleasing to the sight.
  13. 3Thy threatenings wake my slumbering eyes,
  14. And warn me where my danger lies;
  15. But 'tis Thy blessed Gospel, Lord,
  16. That makes my guilty conscience clean,
  17. Converts my soul, subdues my sin,
  18. And gives a free, but large reward.
  19. 4Who knows the errors of his thoughts?
  20. My God, forgive my secret faults,
  21. And from presumptuous sins restrain
  22. Accept my poor attempts of praise,
  23. That I have read Thy Book of grace
  24. And book of nature not in vain.

About this music

MELITA — John Bacchus Dykes. 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1869 hymn 222. Tune from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. %OHARRANGER unknown assumed Dykes, John Bacchus (1823-1876) words found in "The service of song for Baptist churches", 1876 Hymn 1070; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the I love the volume of Thy Word page.

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