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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 will penetrate and pierce, There is no secret place Within the Soul, but thy Word will Most quick and swiftly pass.
4 It doth the very Thoughts discern, Nay it divides between The Soul and Spirit of a Man, To sever both from sin.
5 And Fire is used to lay waste Houses where Rebels hide, Even so thy Word doth quite consume The House of Lusts and Pride.
5 And Fire is used to lay waste Houses where Rebels hide, Ev'n so thy Word doth quite consume The House of Lusts and Pride.
6 Man with vain hopes a House doth raise, And vaunts himself each day; But when thy Word doth seize on him, His House consumes a way.
6 Man with vain hopes a House doth raise, And vaunts himself each day; But when thy Word doth sieze on him, His House consumes a way.