A47611:1640
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 This is the cause wherefore they love God's Words better than Gold Or Jewels rich, which are esteemed By most who them behold.
3 This is the cause wherefore they love God's Words better than Gold Or Jewels rich, which are esteem'd By most who them behold.
4 They see God's Precepts are most just, It doth all sins descry, And every Lust and false way they Hate therefore bitterly.
4 They see God's Precepts are most just, It doth all sins descry, And ev'ry Lust and false way they Hate therefore bitterly.
5 Th' admirable and sweet consent, And blessed harmony That's in the whole and every part Shows their divinity.
5 Th' admirable and sweet consent, And blessed harmony That's in the whole and ev'ry part Shews their divinity.