A47611:1464
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 Small things do them not soon offend, But strengthened be to bear Such things that others startle at, And can't abide to hear.
3 Small things do them not soon offend, But strengthned be to bear Such things that others startle at, And can't abide to hear.
4 O then ye Saints do you see to't, Your weakness don't betray, Who have been long in Jesus's School, Yet stumbling-blocks do lay
5 In your own paths, and others too, And so expose God's Name To great reproach, but on your selves Do bring the greatest shame:
6 But let the strong bear with the weak In things indifferent, And let the weak more wisdom seek, Than from the strong to rent,