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Play “The Glories of Adoption”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Glories of Adoption (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Behold! what wondrous grace
- The Father has bestowed
- On sinners of a mortal race,
- To call them sons of God!
- 2Nor doth it yet appear
- How great we must be made;
- But when we see our Saviour here,
- We shall be like our Head.
- 3A hope so much divine
- May trials well endure,
- May purge our souls from sense and sin,
- As Christ the Lord is pure.
- 4If in my Father's love
- I share a filial part,
- Send down thy Spirit, like a dove,
- To rest upon my heart.
- 5We would no longer lie
- Like slaves beneath the throne;
- Our faith shall Abba, Father! cry,
- And thou the kindred own.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Glories of Adoption page.
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