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Play “To Thy Temple I Repair”
Free same-meter accompaniment for To Thy Temple I Repair (James Montgomery): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 7 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1To Thy temple I repair,
- Lord, I love to worship there,
- When, within the veil I meet
- Christ before the mercy-seat.
- 2While Thy glorious praise is sung,
- Touch my lips, unloose my tongue,
- That my joyful soul may bless
- Thee, the Lord my Righteousness.
- 3While the prayers of saints ascend,
- God of Love, to mine attend:
- Hear me, for Thy Spirit pleads;
- Hear, for Jesus intercedes.
- 4While I hearken to Thy Law,
- Fill my soul with humble awe;
- Till Thy Gospel bring to me
- Life and immortality.
- 5While Thy ministers proclaim
- Peace and pardon in Thy Name,
- Through their voice, by faith may I
- Hear Thee speaking from the sky.
- 6From Thy house when I return,
- May my heart within me burn;
- And at evening let me say,
- I have walked with God to-day.
- 7Amen.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the To Thy Temple I Repair page.
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