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Play “Original and actual Sin confessed”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Original and actual Sin confessed (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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  1. 1Lord, we are vile, and full of sin,
  2. We're born unholy and unclean;
  3. Spring from the man whose guilty fall
  4. Corrupts his race, and taints us all.
  5. 2Soon as we draw our infant breath
  6. The seeds of sin grow up for death;
  7. Thy law demands a perfect heart,
  8. But we're defiled in every part.
  9. 3Behold, we fall before thy face;
  10. Our only refuge is thy grace:
  11. No outward forms can make us clean;
  12. The leprosy lies deep within.
  13. 4Nor bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast,
  14. Nor hyssop branch, nor earthly priest,
  15. Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea,
  16. Can wash the dismal stain away.
  17. 5Jesus, thy blood, thy blood alone,
  18. Hath power sufficient to atone;
  19. Thy blood can make us white as snow;
  20. No other tide can cleanse us so.

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 Original and actual Sin confessed page.

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