A47611:119
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.
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.
9 The Rule it is Gods Holy Word, Would you the Pattern view, 'Tis the first Church the Lord did build, As th' Apostles Acts do show.
9 The Rule it is Gods Holy Word, Would you the Pattern view, 'Tis the first Church the Lord did build, As th' Apostles Acts do shew.