A47611:1724
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 Salt is of universal use, There's nothing Men want more; Without God's Grace there's none can live, Let them be rich or poor.
2 Such absolute need have we thereof, Without it can't live here A holy life; nor can we stand When Jesus doth appear.
3 All ranks of Men both high and low, Both Kings and Peasants too, Must salted be with Grace on Earth, Or down to Hell must go;
4 In every state, where-e'er they be, By Sea as well as Land, They Grace do need continually If sin they would withstand:
4 In ev'ry state, where-er'e they be, By Sea as well as Land, They Grace do need continually If sin they would withstand: