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Free same-meter accompaniment for Pray without Ceasing (J. Hart): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1Prayer is appointed to convey
- The blessings God designs to give;
- Long as they live should Christians pray
- They learn to pray when first they live.
- 2If pains afflict, or wrongs oppress,
- If cares distract, or fears dismay,
- If guilt dejects, if sins distress,
- In every case still watch and pray.
- 3'Tis prayer supports the soul that's weak,
- Though thought be broken, language lame;
- Pray, if thou canst or canst not speak,
- But pray with faith, in Jesus' name.
- 4Depend on him; thou canst not fail;
- Make all thy wants and wishes known;
- Fear not; his merits must prevail!
- Ask but in faith, it shall be done.
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 Pray without Ceasing page.
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