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Play “The Witnessing and Sealing Spirit”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Witnessing and Sealing Spirit (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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 ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Why should the children of a King
- Go mourning all their days?
- Great Comforter, descend, and bring
- Some tokens of thy grace.
- 2Dost thou not dwell in all the saints,
- And seal the heirs of heaven?
- When wilt thou banish my complaints,
- And show my sins forgiven?
- 3Assure my conscience of her part
- In the Redeemer's blood;
- And bear thy witness with my heart,
- That I am born of God.
- 4Thou art the earnest of his love,
- The pledge of joys to come;
- And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,
- Will safe convey me home.
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Witnessing and Sealing Spirit page.
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