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Free same-meter accompaniment for To the Holy Ghost (Charles Wesley): 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.
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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- 1Stay, thou insulted spirit, stay,
- Though I have done thee such despite,
- Nor cast the sinner quite away,
- Nor take thine everlasting flight.
- 2Though I have steeled my stubborn heart,
- And still shook off my guilty fears;
- And vexed, and urged thee to depart,
- For many long, rebellious years:
- 3Though I have most unfaithful been,
- Of all whoe'er thy grace received;
- Ten thousand times thy goodness seen,
- Ten thousand times thy goodness grieved:
- 4Yet, oh! the chief of sinners spare,
- In honor of my great High Priest;
- Nor in thy righteous anger swear
- T' exclude me from thy people's rest.
- 5This only woe I deprecate;
- This only plague I pray remove;
- Nor leave me in my lost estate;
- Nor curse me with this want of love.
- 6Now, Lord, my weary soul release,
- Upraise me with thy gracious hand,
- And guide into thy perfect peace,
- And bring me to the promised land.
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 To the Holy Ghost page.
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