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Free same-meter accompaniment for Sovereign Purposes of God (Isaac Watts): 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.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Keep silence, all created things!
- And wait your Maker's nod;
- My soul stands trembling, while she sings
- The honors of her God.
- 2Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown,
- Hang on his firm decree;
- He sits on no precarious throne,
- Nor borrows leave to be.
- 3His providence unfolds the book,
- And makes his counsels shine;
- Each opening leaf, and every stroke,
- Fulfills some deep design.
- 4My God! I would not long to see
- My fate with curious eyes
- What gloomy lines are writ for me,
- Or what bright scenes may rise.
- 5In thy fair book of life and grace,
- Oh, may I find my name
- Recorded in some humble place,
- Beneath my Lord, the Lamb.
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 Sovereign Purposes of God page.
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