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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Enjoyment of Heaven (Philip Doddridge): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1Thine earthly sabbaths, Lord, we love;
- But there's a nobler rest above;
- Thy servants to that rest aspire
- With ardent hope and strong desire.
- 2No more fatigue, no more distress,
- Nor sin, nor death shall reach the place;
- No groans shall mingle with the songs
- That dwell upon immortal tongues.
- 3No rude alarms of raging foes;
- No cares to break our long repose;
- No midnight shade, no clouded sun,
- But sacred, high, eternal noon.
- 4O long-expected day, begin!
- Dawn on these realms of woe and sin!
- Fain would we leave this weary road,
- And sleep in death, to rest with God.
- 5Amen.
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 Enjoyment of Heaven page.
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