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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Gospel is the Power of God to Salvation (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 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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  1. 1What shall the dying sinner do,
  2. That seeks relief for all his woe?
  3. Where shall the guilty conscience find
  4. Ease for the torment of the mind?
  5. 2How shall we get our crimes forgiven,
  6. Or form our natures fit for heaven?
  7. Can souls, all o’er defiled with sin,
  8. Make their own powers and passions clean?
  9. 3In vain we search, in vain we try,
  10. Till Jesus brings his gospel nigh;
  11. ’Tis there that power and glory dwell,
  12. That save rebellious souls from hell.
  13. 4This is the pillar of our hope,
  14. That bears our fainting spirits up;
  15. We read the grace, we trust the word,
  16. And find salvation in the Lord.
  17. 5[Let men or angels dig the mines
  18. Where nature’s golden treasure shines;
  19. Brought near the doctrine of the cross,
  20. All nature’s gold appears but dross.]
  21. 6Should vile blasphemers, with disdain,
  22. Pronounce the truths of Jesus vain,
  23. We’ll meet the scandal and the shame,
  24. And sing and triumph in his name.

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 Gospel is the Power of God to Salvation page.

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