A47611:1716
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.
The second Part.
1 Salt doth preserve, 'tis evident, Both Meat and other things, Else they'll corrupt and quickly taint; Like Virtue also springs
1 Salt doth preserve, 'tis evident, Both Meat and other things, Else they'll corrupt and quickly taint; Like Vertue also springs
2 From thy good Grace, 'tis that, O Lord, Which doth preserve from sin All graceless Sinners odious stink, So filthy are within,
3 That all their inward parts corrupt, And they like Carrion lye ⟨p. 239⟩In a vile Ditch, or Common-shore, In their iniquity.