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Free same-meter accompaniment for New Birth (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Nor all the outward forms on earth,
- Nor rites that God has given,
- Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
- Can raise a soul to heaven.
- 2The sovereign will of God alone
- Creates us heirs of grace;
- Born is the image of his Son,
- A new, peculiar race.
- 3The Spirit, like some heavenly wind,
- Breathes on the sons of flesh,
- New-models all the carnal mind,
- And forms the man afresh.
- 4Our quickened souls awake and rise
- From the long sleep of death;
- On heavenly things we fix our eyes,
- And praise employs our breath.
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 New Birth page.
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