A47611:1792
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 A Breast-plate doth the Soldier cheer, It makes him very bold; So Righteousness doth make us all Our Sword with courage hold,
1 A Breast-plate doth the Souldier chear, It makes him very bold; So Righteousness doth make us all Our Sword with courage hold,
2 And not to fear i'th'day of evil What any man can do; Nay we hereby withstand the Devil, Who doth great malice show.
3 O then, ye Saints, see you maintain A good and holy life, And soon thereby you will obtain An end of all that strife
4 With which you meet from Foes without, And also from within; O know it is God's great design To purge you from your sin;