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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.
Hos 5.12. I will be a Moth to Ephraim.
1 Moths secretly do seize and eat, And spoil fair Garments quite; So many times thy Judgments are Hid from most peoples sight.
1 MOths secretly do seize and eat, And spoil fair Garments quite; So many times thy Judgments are Hid from most peoples sight.
2 Moths often spoil things rich and rare, As well as of small worth, So thou, O Lord, wilt neither spare The poor nor rich of th' earth:
3 All are alike, O Lord, to thee, If wrath on them do seize, Unsensibly thou canst; them spoil Like Moths, if thou dost please.
4 A Moth does eat things by degrees, A little now and then; So gradually thou dost destroy Sometimes vile wicked men.