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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.
The second Part.
1 Nothing but precious Stones must be On the foundation placed, By such who wood or stubble build This fabric is disgraced.
1 Nothing but precious Stones must be On the foundation plac'd, By such who wood or stubble build This fabrick is disgrac'd.
2 And they will suffer loss thereby When it comes to be tried, Because such stuff cannot endure, Their work will not abide.
2 And they will suffer loss thereby When it comes to be try'd, Because such stuff cannot endure, Their work will not abide.
3 Then see all ye who are called Saints, That you are precious Gold, I mean sincere and godly ones, Whom God loves to behold.
3 Then see all ye who are call'd Saints, That you are precious Gold, I mean sincere and godly ones, Whom God loves to behold.