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Play “Israel Led to Canaan, and Christians to Heaven”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Israel Led to Canaan, and Christians to Heaven (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 8 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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- 1Give thanks to God; he reigns above;
- Kind are his thoughts, his name is Love;
- His mercy ages past have known,
- And ages long to come shall own.
- 2Let the redeemed of the Lord
- The wonders of his grace record;
- Isr'el, the nation whom he chose,
- And rescued from their mighty foes.
- 3[When God's almighty arm had broke
- Their fetters and th' Egyptian yoke,
- They traced the desert, wand'ring round
- A wild and solitary ground.
- 4There they could find no leading road,
- Nor city for a fixed abode;
- Nor food, nor fountain, to assuage
- Their burning thirst or hunger's rage.]
- 5In their distress, to God they cried
- God was their Savior and their Guide;
- He led their march far wand'ring round,
- 'Twas the right path to Canaan's ground.
- 6Thus, when our first release we gain
- From sin's old yoke, and Satan's chain,
- We have this desert world to pass,
- A dangerous and a tiresome place.
- 7He feeds and clothes us all the way,
- He guides our footsteps lest we stray,
- He guards us with a powerful hand,
- And brings us to the heav'nly land.
- 8O let the saints with joy record
- The truth and goodness of the Lord!
- How great his works! how kind his ways!
- Let every tongue pronounce his praise.
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 Israel Led to Canaan, and Christians to Heaven page.
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