A47611:1271
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.
1 Our wounds do stink, and are corrupt, Hard swellings we do see; We want a little Ointment, Lord, Let us more humble be:
1 OUr wounds do stink, and are corrupt, Hard swellings we do see; We want a little Oyntment, Lord, Let us more humble be:
2 Thy Spirit will allay our pride, And bring us to thy feet; And when that we are softened, Thy Image on us set.
3 This Oil will heal and mollify, O pour it quickly in, That we may live and never die, Lord, by our cursed sin!
3 This Oyl will heal and mollifie, O pour it quickly in, That we may live and never die, Lord, by our cursed sin!
4 This Oil of thine, O it is good All Poison to expel! It by the virtue of thy Blood Does heal thy Israel.
4 This Oyl of thine, O it is good All Poyson to expell! It by the vertue of thy Blood Does heal thy Israel.