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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.
2 'Tis th' ready way to become great And rich, will you come in? The Trumpets sound, and Drums do beat To war against your sin.
3 Will you be on our Captains side? Ah! if you still stand out, His Sword ere long will you divide With them that turn about:
3 Will you be on our Captains side? Ah! if you still stand out, His Sword e're long will you divide VVith them that turn about:
4 For if Deserters there be found, Better not to be born, His wrath to such will so abound, To pieces they'll be torn.
5 Ye Saints your Leader follow close, And see that you do keep To the Company you have chose, And from them do not slip.