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Free same-meter accompaniment for Pardon and Rest for the Weary Soul (Anne Steele): 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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- 1Come, weary souls with sin distressed,
- Come, and accept the promised rest;
- The Saviour's gracious call obey,
- And cast your gloomy fears away.
- 2Oppressed with guilt, a painful load,
- O, come and spread your woes abroad!
- Divine compassion, mighty love,
- Will all the painful load remove.
- 3Here mercy's boundless ocean flows,
- To cleanse your guilt, and heal your woes;
- Pardon, and life, and endless peace;
- How rich the gift! how free the grace!
- 4Lord, we accept, with thankful hearts,
- The hopes thy gracious word imparts;
- We come with trembling, yet rejoice,
- And bless the kind, inviting voice.
- 5Dear Saviour, let thy powerful love
- Confirm our faith, our fears remove;
- And sweetly influence every breast,
- And guide us to eternal rest.
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 Pardon and Rest for the Weary Soul page.
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