A47611:1617
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.
1 O let it be well polished, And it also unite Unto thy building, there to be A Jasper-stone most bright,
2 That it may suit and well agree With the Foundation stone, Which is of Gold, no Diamond More glorious ever shone;
4 And then shall we, when thus we be Into thy Building laid, Have cause to sing unto our King By thy eternal aid.
4 This Hammer of thy blessed Word Must drive the Nail quite home, Or else Convictions will not stick Whenever they do come:
5 The Precept, Lord, will not abide, Nor Promise fastened be; Nor no Conviction last in us, Until drove home by thee: