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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.
1 A Husbandman knows very well, His ground will barren be, ⟨p. 11⟩Unless it is well manured, No profit he can see.
2 Even so unless the fallow ground Of thy base wicked heart Be broken up, it will be found That thou most barren art.
3 A Husbandman does spare no cost, Nor grudge at his great pains, That so he may his ground make good, When he his end obtains.
4 So God likewise thinks nought too much Who does great cost bestow On Souls of men, when they prove such Who forth his Glory show.