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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 Third Part.
1 Men with much care and observance Do mind how the Winds blow; So we th' Spirits influence Likewise should strive to know.
2 Our Souls becalmed sometimes we see For want of a fresh gale, Without the Spirit move can't we, Thy Wind must fill our sail.
2 Our Souls becalm'd sometimes we see For want of a fresh gale, Without the Spirit move can't we, Thy Wind must fill our sayl.
3 Sometimes thy Spirit blows so slow As if it quite were still, Yet at such times his work doth do With strange and wondrous skill: