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Play “The Church is the Garden of God”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Church is the Garden of God (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.
Sung here to OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Lord! 'tis a pleasant thing, to stand
- In gardens planted by thy hand.
- Let me within thy courts be seen,
- Like a young cedar, fresh and green.
- 2There grow thy saints in faith and love,
- Blest with thine influence from above:
- Not Lebanon, with all its trees,
- Yields such a comely sight as these.
- 3The plants of grace shall ever live;
- Nature decays, but grace must thrive;
- Time, that doth all things else impair,
- Shall make them flourish strong and fair.
- 4Laden with fruits of age, they show,
- The Lord is holy, just, and true.
- None, that attend his gates shall find
- A God unfaithful or unkind.
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 The Church is the Garden of God page.
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