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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 88. God's Word compared to Dew.
Deut. 32.3. My Speech shall distil as Dew.
Deut. 32.3. My Speech shall distill as Dew.
1 AS Dew doth insensibly fall, So doth God's gracious Word Invisibly operate in us, As we have often heard.
1 AS Dew doth insensibly fall, So doth God's gracious Word Invisibly op'rate in us, As we have often heard.
2 How sweet are Dews unto the Herb, It makes them richly smile; So doth thy Word bedew oft-times Thy own true Israel.