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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.
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.
7 But such that fruitful Branches be, He purges every one, And abundantly shall they bring forth, Before that he has done.
8 As God doth sow, so he likewise Doth cause the rain to fall, That so his Vineyard flourish may, And's Trees be fruitful all.
9 Which other Husbandmen can't do, Nor can they change the soil; But God can make Mens hearts most good Which naturally were vile.