A47611:1578
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.
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.
3 Fire is of an ascending kind, It mounts things up aloft; So they mount up in heart and mind, Who by thy Word are taught;