A47611:2022
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 EVery natural Body hath A Head, and hath but one; The Head, Lord, of thy Church thou art, Thou art her Head alone.
1 EV'ry natural Body hath A Head, and hath but one; The Head, Lord, of thy Church thou art, Thou art her Head alone.
2 And all her Members joined be To thee in sacred bonds, And influence they have from thee, In thee her glory stands.
2 And all her Members joyned be To thee in sacred bonds, And influence they have from thee, In thee her glory stands.
3 And all Members of the Body are Of use unto the whole, ⟨p. 284⟩So of some use unto thy Church Is every gracious Soul
4 Who is a Member of the same; If any rotten are, And past all hope of being healed, No being must have there,