A47611:2023
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 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,
4 Who is a Member of the same; If any rotten are, And past all hope of being heal'd, No being must have there,
5 But off they must be cut with speed, Lest worser dangers fall; For one polluted Member may Even soon corrupt them all.