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Play “The Love of God Shed Abroad in the Heart”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Love of God Shed Abroad in the Heart (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 3 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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- 1Come, gracious Lord, descend and dwell,
- By faith and love, in every breast;
- Then shall we know, and taste, and feel
- The joys that cannot be expressed.
- 2Come, fill our hearts with inward strength,
- Make our enlarged souls possess,
- And learn the height, and breadth, and length
- Of thine eternal love and grace.
- 3Now to the God whose power can do
- More than our thoughts and wishes know,
- Be everlasting honors done,
- By all the Church, through Christ his Son.
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 Love of God Shed Abroad in the Heart page.
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