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Free same-meter accompaniment for Pleading His Gracious Name (John Newton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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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- 1Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat,
- Where Jesus answers prayer;
- There humbly fall before His feet,
- For none can perish there.
- 2Thy promise is my only plea,
- With this I venture nigh;
- Thou callest burdened souls to Thee,
- And such, O Lord, am I.
- 3Bowed down beneath a load of sin,
- By Satan sorely pressed,
- By wars without and fears within,
- I come to Thee for rest.
- 4Be Thou my shield and hiding-place,
- That, sheltered near Thy side,
- I may my fierce accuser face,
- And tell him, Thou hast died.
- 5O wondrous love, to bleed and die,
- To bear the cross and shame,
- That guilty sinners, such as I,
- Might plead Thy gracious name!
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 Pleading His Gracious Name page.
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