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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 The Timber, and the Stones by him Were squared curiously, That all the Buildings in the World, With this cannot come nigh.
6 The matter and the form also, Did he alone ordain, No alteration must be made, Upon eternal pain.
7 All other Builders Servants have To labour with their hands; Who according to the pattern act, And just as he commands.
8 So Ministers God does employ, Who must the pattern know, And if they alter any thing, They do their folly show.
8 So Ministers God does imploy, Who must the pattern know, And if they alter any thing, They do their folly show.