A47611:1249
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.
3 He dries up all our ways so soul, And makes our paths more clean; He makes a holy gracious Soul, Which had most filthy been.
3 He dryes up all our ways so soul, And makes our paths more clean; He makes a holy gracious Soul, Which had most filthy been.
4 His influence and blessed effects We oftentimes do feel; He makes the tender Willows bend, And mighty Cedars reel:
4 His influence and bless'd effects We oftentimes do feel; He makes the tender Willows bend, And mighty Cedars reel:
5 He makes the glory of Man to fade Like Flowers of the Field, And throws down houses such have made Who on the sands do build.
6 He blows oft times till Rain does fall, Or Tears do pour amain; And afterwards we see withal He clears our sky again.