A47611:1338
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.
4 This River sweetly soaks the Earth Where-e'er its streams do run, And plenteously he will pour forth His waters ere he's done.
4 This River sweetly soaks the Earth VVhere-e're its streams do run, And plenteously he will pour forth His waters e're he's done.
5 This River, O 'tis very deep, The bottom none can know; Fresh always doth its waters keep, And yet they over-flow.
6 Its Banks they are God's holy Word, That is his lasting bounds; Oh! where God doth his Name record, There are these waters found.
6 Its Banks they are God's holy VVord, That is his lasting bounds; Oh! where God doth his Name record, There are these waters found.
7 Over these Banks it will not go, Nor ever break them down; Whoe're they be who make a breach, They shall be overthrown.