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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.
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
3 Upon the sweet and tender Herb, That so the one may be Made soft with Rain, and th' other Refreshed be by thee?