A47611:1979
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.
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,
4 For Kingdoms, nor for Crowns of Gold, Such inward joy doth he afford, That nothing can the same unfold, It so aboundeth in the Lord.
5 'Tis Conscience which with precious Food Doth feed God's Saints continually; Its Dainties also are so good, All other Sweets they do defy.