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Free same-meter accompaniment for Prayer answered by Crosses (John Newton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 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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- 1I asked the Lord that I might grow
- In faith and love, and every grace;
- Might more of his salvation know,
- And seek more earnestly his face.
- 2'Twas he who taught me thus to pray,
- And he, I trust, has answered prayer;
- But it has been in such a way
- As almost drove me to despair.
- 3I hoped that in some favored hour
- At once he'd answer my request,
- And by his love's constraining power,
- Subdue my sins and give me rest.
- 4Instead of this, he made me feel
- The hidden evils of my heart,
- And let the angry powers of hell
- Assault my soul in every part.
- 5Lord, why is this? I trembling cried,
- Wilt thou pursue thy worm to death?
- 'Tis in this way, the Lord replied,
- I answer prayer for grace and faith:
- 6These inward trials I employ
- From self and pride to set thee free,
- And break thy schemes of earthly joy,
- That thou may'st seek thy all in me.
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 Prayer answered by Crosses page.
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