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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 90. God's Word compared to Fire.
HYMN 90. God's Word compar'd to Fire.
Jer. 23.29. Is not my Word like Fire.
1 Thy Word it doth illuminate, It giveth forth sweet light, And also from it we have heat, Our Graces to excite.
1 THy Word it doth illuminate, It giveth forth sweet light, And also from it we have heat, Our Graces to excite.
2 Thy Word, like Fire, doth consume Our filth and dross within; What is combustible does waste, It seizes on our sin.
2 Thy Word, like Fire, doth consume Our filth and dross within; What is combustible does waste, It siezes on our sin.