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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.
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;
4 As fired are by thy own Spirit, Thy Word without that, Lord, ⟨p. 218⟩Will never burn, nor raise our hearts (As we have newly heard.)
4 As fir'd are by thy own Spirit, Thy Word without that, Lord, ⟨p. 218⟩Will never burn, nor raise our hearts (As we have newly heard.)
5 Fire will melt and soften things That hard are naturally; 'Tis by thy Word and Spirit we Do with thy Will comply.
6 'Tis that which bends & makes us yield, And humbles much the heart, Which naturally was proud and vain, And too obdurate.