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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Hiding Place (Jehoida Brewer): 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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- 1Hail, boundless love, that first began
- The scheme to rescue fallen man!
- Hail, matchless, free, eternal grace,
- That gave my soul a hiding-place.
- 2Against the God that rules the sky
- I fought with hands uplifted high;
- Despis'd his rich, abounding grace,
- Too proud to seek a hiding-place.
- 3But thus th'eternal counsel ran,
- "Almighty love arrest that man;"
- I felt the arrows of distress,
- And found I had no hiding-place.
- 4Indignant justice stood in view,
- To Sinai's fiery mount I flew;
- But justice cry'd with frowning face,
- "This mountain is no hiding-place."
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 Hiding Place page.
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