A47611:2028
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 Woe unto him who shall attempt This Body to divide, Or make a Schism, 'tis all one, With piercing of Christ's side;
1 Wo unto him who shall attempt This Body to divide, Or make a Schism, 'tis all one, With piercing of Christ's side;
2 For O the nearness that's between The Body and the Head, Don't cut Christ's Veins, remember well What once he suffered.
3 O wound him not again, I say, His Body don't annoy; If it you mangle, he will you For evermore destroy:
4 But see that every one doth seek To do good to each other, And pity take continually Of the poorest Brother.
4 But see that ev'ry one doth seek To do good to each other, And pity take continually Of the poorest Brother.