A47611:1571
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.
2 Even so although' thy Gold is found In Ministers so mean, The worth of it doth still abound, Though some do not esteem
2 Ev'n so altho' thy Gold is found In Ministers so mean, The worth of it doth still abound, Though some do not esteem
3 Of it, because the Vessels are Despised; but there's a day When they shall glorious appear, And golden Sceptres sway.
3 Of it, because the Vessels are Despis'd; but there's a day When they shall glorious appear, And golden Scepters sway.
4 O prize God's faithful Servants then, Who do enrich your Souls! O value them above all Men, And be no longer Fools
4 O prize God's faithful Servants then, Who do inrich your Souls! O value them above all Men, And be no longer Fools
5 To grieve them, and to wear them out By any means, if ye Would ever, in the Judgement-day Christ's face with comfort see;