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Free same-meter accompaniment for Who shall ascend thy heavenly place (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1Who shall ascend thy heav'nly place,
- Great God, and dwell before thy face?
- The man who loves religion now,
- And humbly walk with God below;
- 2Whose hands are pure, whose heart is clean,
- Whose lips shall speak the things they mean.
- No slanders dwell upon his tongue;
- He hates to do a neighbor wrong.
- 3He will not trust an ill report,
- Nor vent it to his neighbour's hurt;
- Sinners of state he can despise,
- But saints are honour'd in his eyes.
- 4Firm to his word he ever stood,
- And always makes his promise good:
- Nor will he change the thing he swears,
- Whatever pain or loss he bears.
- 5He never deals in bribing gold,
- And mourns that justice should be sold.
- If others vex and grind the poor,
- Sweet charity attends his door.
- 6He loves his enemies, and prays
- For those that curse him to his face;
- And doth to all men still the same,
- That he could hope or wish from them.
- 7Yet, when his holiest works are done,
- His soul depends on grace alone.
- This is the man thy face shall see,
- And dwell for ever, Lord! with thee.
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 Who shall ascend thy heavenly place page.
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