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Play “Restoring and Preserving Grace”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Restoring and Preserving Grace (Isaac Watts): 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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- 1With all my powers of heart and tongue,
- I'll praise my Maker in my song;
- Angels shall hear the notes I raise,
- Approve the song, and join the praise.
- 2To God I cried when troubles rose;
- He heard me, and subdued my foes:
- He did my rising fears control,
- And strength diffused through all my soul.
- 3Amidst a thousand snares, I stand
- Upheld and guarded by Thy hand;
- Thy words my fainting soul revive,
- And keep my dying faith alive.
- 4Grace will complete what grace begins,
- To save from sorrow or from sins;
- The work that wisdom undertakes,
- Eternal mercy ne'er forsakes.
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 Restoring and Preserving Grace page.
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