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Spiritual melody
Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark
London: printed for John Hancock, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Third Part.
1 Thou givest the Word too of Command, What 'tis that we must do; But never bidst us still to stand, Nor backward for to go.
1 Thou giv'st the Word too of Command, What 'tis that we must do; But never bidst us still to stand, Nor backward for to go.
2 We never must, Lord, wheel about, Nor be as once we were; But forward march with courage stout, Without all dread or fear.
3 Let's take Example, Lord of thee, Resist even unto Blood Before yield to iniquity, Which has us oft withstood.
3 Let's take Example, Lord of thee, Resist ev'n unto Blood Before yield to iniquitiy, Which has us oft withstood.