A47611:103
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.
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.
5 A Husbandman his Trees doth prune, More fruitful them to make, But branches that unfruitful be, Such off the Trees does take.
6 And thus doth God by all those men Who by profession are In Jesus Christ, who barren prove, Them long he will not spare.