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Play “The Pleasure of Public Worship”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Pleasure of Public Worship (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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- 1How pleasant, how divinely fair,
- O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!
- With long desire my spirit faints
- To meet th' assemblies of the saints.
- 2Blest are the souls that find a place
- Within the temple of thy grace;
- There they behold thy gentle rays,
- And seek thy face and learn thy praise.
- 3Blest are the men whose hearts are set
- To find the way to Zion's gate;
- God is their strength; and thro' the road
- They lean upon their helper, God.
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 Pleasure of Public Worship page.
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