A47611:1916
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 Sons in their Father do rejoice, Whose Off-spring all they be, And hence the Angels lift their voice In Songs, Lord, unto thee,
1 SOns in their Father do rejoyce, Whose Off-spring all they be, And hence the Angels lift their voice In Songs, Lord, unto thee,
2 By whom they all created were, And on whom they attend, And from whom all their dignity Doth unto them descend:
3 They clothed are like unto Sons With might and glorious power, And serve the Lord most willingly, With greatest zeal each hour:
3 They cloathed are like unto Sons With might and glorious power, And serve the Lord most willingly, With greatest zeal each hour:
4 One part of their sweet work's to sing To God melodiously, And we by them also are taught To sing continually.