A47611:1978
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 IF Conscience is become my Friend, And cheerfully doth speak to me, And I do to his motions bend, No matter though I hated be:
1 IF Conscience is become my Friend, And chearfully doth speak to me, And I do to his motions bend, No matter though I hated be:
2 No matter 'tis who doth revile, If Conscience doth his witness bear For us, and doth upon us smile, Most easy will all things appear.
2 No matter 'tis who doth revile, If Conscience doth his witness bear For us, and doth upon us smile, Most easie will all things appear.
3 If Conscience now doth give us rest, And from all burdens sets us free, Again we would not be oppressed In the old bonds of misery,
3 If Conscience now doth give us rest, And from all burthens sets us free, Again we would not be opprest In the old bonds of misery,