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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.
3 No Hand but that this Sword can wield, The Spirit gives the blow, We by them both do win the Field, And Enemies o'erthrow.
3 No Hand but that this Sword can wield, The Spirit gives the blow, VVe by them both do win the Field, And Enemies o'rethrow.
4 The Spirit doth thy Word explain, 'Twas forged and given forth Even by himself, and therefore he The chiefest glory hath.
4 The Spirit doth thy VVord explain, 'Twas forg'd and given forth Even by himself, and therefore he The chiefest glory hath.
5 The efficacy of thy Word, Does in thy Spirit lye, It an impression ne'er will make, If he don't it apply.
5 The efficacy of thy VVord, Does in thy Spirit lye, It an impression ne're will make, If he don't it apply.