A47611:1472
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.
2 Beyond all things, though ne'er so sweet, There's nothing can it show, Nor set it forth unto its worth Of things which are below:
2 Beyond all things, though ne're so sweet, There's nothing can it show, Nor set it forth unto its worth Of things which are below:
3 Nothing with it can once compare, O do but taste and try; For none but such can ever tell What good in it doth lye.
4 If you to Honey add such things Which very bitter are, The bitterness it doth take off, Nay sweet it doth appear
5 Unto the taste; so if you do With great afflictions meet, If God a Promise gives to you, The trial will be sweet.
5 Unto the taste; so if you do With great afflictons meet, If God a Promise gives to you, The tryal will be sweet.