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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 "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.
4 Dumb Pictures might we all ador'd, Like Papists in Devotion; And with Rome's Errours so been stor'd, To drink her deadly Potion.
5 We might have lived in shades of night, And ne'er have known good days, But thou hast sent us Gospel Light To thine eternal praise.
5 We might have liv'd in shades of night, And ne're have known good days, But thou hast sent us Gospel Light To thine eternal praise.
6 The Sun which rose up in the East, And drove their shades away, Hath sent his Light unto the West, And turned our Night to Day.