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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.
HYMN 55. Christ comes suddenly.
Rev. 16.15. Behold I come as a Thief.
1 YE Saints about you look with speed, Christ's coming does draw near; O watch with care, and take great heed, As a Thief he will appear:
2 Not like a Thief unrighteously To do Men any wrong, But unawares most suddenly, Though many think 'tis long.
3 Like as a Thief comes in the night When people are all still, And puts them all into a fright, So thy dread coming will
3 Like as a Thief comes in the night VVhen people are all still, And puts them all into a fright, So thy dread coming will