A47611:1478
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 For the full stomach oft doth loath The Honey-Comb so sweet; So carnal […] count God's Word As poor and sorry Meat.
1 For the full stomach oft doth loath The Honey-Comb so sweet; So carnal 〈…〉 count God's Word As poor and sorry Meat.
2 Honey is of a purging kind, God's Word it purges so, It doth make clean both Heart and Mind, The Life and Lip also.
3 O then be like the pretty Be Which doth industriously From every Flower she can see Her self store with Honey.
3 O then be like the pretty Bee Which doth industriously From ev'ry Flower she can see Her self store with Honey.
4 And now ye Saints who sweetness find In God's most blessed Word, Sing forth his Praise with joyful Mind Jointly with one accord.