A47611:174
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.
6 To exercise our Graces too, This is another end, That they might their great Lustre show, For this does trials send.
6 To exercise our Graces too, This is another end, That they might their great Lustre show, For this does tryals send.
7 And Satan might be silenced, Who does Gods Jobs accuse, From hence, as you have heard and read, God thus his Saints does use.
8 And that Examples God might have Of patience, to sustain Some others of his Children, who May meet with such like pain.
9 Then do not mourn, ye godly ones, When on you God does run, He pities you, and hears your moans, In mercy will return