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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.
HYMN 82. God's Word compared to Milk.
HYMN 82. God's Word compar'd to Milk.
1 Pet. 2.2. As new born Babes desiring the sincere Milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby.
1 Art thou a Babe, tho' newly born? What is thy Soul's desire? Dost hunger for Milk of God's Word, And raise thy cry yet higher?
1 ARt thou a Babe, tho' newly born? What is thy Soul's desire? Dost hunger for Milk of God's Word, And raise thy cry yet higher?
2 As pretty Babes who want the Breast, How do they cry amain! Ah! can thy Soul find no small rest Till thou dost Milk obtain: