Consolation (William Billings)

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(Posted 2023-10-07) CPDL #76134:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-10-07). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 59 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Waterhouse Manuscript, 1780-1781, as "Bradford"; copied by Susanna Heath, with words from Isaac Watts, paraphrase of Psalm 47, with six stanzas. Heath used the first stanza; for this edition, the third stanza was added.

(Posted 2015-03-04) CPDL #34719:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-03-04). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 71 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Oval note edition. Pub

(Posted 2015-03-04) CPDL #34720:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-03-04). Score information: 7 x 10 in (landscape), 1 page, 75 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape).

General Information

Title: Consolation
First Line: He's come, let every knee be bent
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist: Henry Playford^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1778 in The Singing Master's Assistant
Manuscript 1780 – 1781 in The Waterhouse Manuscript, no. 21
Description: The Singing-Master's Assistant, 1778, p. 19. Words by Henry Playford, 1707, revised by Arthur Bedford, 1733. See He's come, let every knee be bent (Joseph Stephenson) for a similar version of the words (in long meter).

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 47.

English text

He's come! let every knee be bent,
All hearts new joy resume;
Sing, ye redeemed, with on consent,
"The Comforter is come."

What greater gift, what greater love,
Could God on man bestow?
Angels for this rejoice above,
Let man rejoice below!

Hail, blessed Spirit! may each soul
Thy sacred influence feel;
Do Thou each sinful thought control,
And fix our wavering zeal!

Thou to the conscience dost convey,
Those checks which we should know;
Thy motions point to us the way;
Thou giv'st us strength to go.