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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 87. God's Word compared to Rain.
Deut. 32.2. My Doctrine shall drop as the Rain.
1 Lord 'tis a droughty time we see With us, alas, within, Our moisture seems all dried up By Lust, that fire of sin.
1 LOrd 'tis a droughty time we see With us, alas, within, Our moysture seems all dried up By Lust, that fire of sin.
2 O thou who dost command the Clouds, Shall now thy Showers fall? Shall Rain pour out on barren Hearts? And Dews distil as small
2 O thou who dost command the Clouds, Shall now thy Showers fall? Shall Rain pour out on barren Hearts? And Dews distill as small