A47611:1699
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.
HYMN 97. The Excellency of the Gospel.
1 Blessed be God that we were born Under the joyful sound, And rightly have Baptized been, And bred on English ground,
1 BLessed be God that we were born Under the joyful sound, And rightly have Baptized been, And bred on English ground,
2 Where God most gracious doth appear, And does pour forth his Grace; The lines are fallen unto us In a most pleasant place.
3 "We might have been dark Pagans all, "Or veiled like each Jew, "Or cheated with an Alcoran "Amongst the Turkish crew.
4 Dumb Pictures might we all adored, Like Papists in Devotion; And with Rome's Errors so been stored, To drink her deadly Potion.