Lord thou hast commanded - Bulman, Baruch

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"One of the less competent compositions from Tudor England, employing an unusually wide compass ranging, in the original notation, from bottom C in the bass to the A above middle C."

◈ Genre → Anthems ♬ Voicing → AATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 7

CPDL # 31396

Editor Jason Smart

Posted 2014-02-28

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

¶Lyrics / Text

Lord, thou hast commanded by thy holy apostle that we should abstain from fornication, and that every one of us should know how to keep his vessel, that is to say, his body, in holiness and honour, and not in the lust of concupiscence, as do the heathen, which know not God. I beseech thee to give me grace to behave myself according to this thy holy commandment, that in this time of my single life, I defile not my body with whoredom or any other uncleanness; but so order myself with all honesty and pureness of life that I may glorify thee, my Lord God, both in body and spirit. Amen. [A Prymmer Or Boke of Priuate Prayer (London, 1553)]