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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.
2 All Comforters besides him be Unable to relieve, Instead of comfort Job did see They did of joy bereave.
3 The best of them we have below Can speak but to the Ear, But, Lord, thy Spirit we all know Can make our hearts to hear.
4 O then let us not grieve him, Lord, He is our blessed Friend; If he to us don't help afford, Our Souls will die i'th' end;
4 O then let us not grieve him, Lord, He is our blessed Fsiend; If he to us don't help afford, Our Souls will die i'th' end;
5 But if we are truly sincere, He will us never leave, But in our straits he will appear, And to us close will cleave.