A47611:2030
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.
HYMN 122. The Church comp. to a Bush.
Exod. 3.2. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of Fire out of the midst of a Bush.
1 Thy Church, Lord, in her self is poor, Like to a Bramble dry; 'Tis, Lord, in thee, in thee alone Doth all her glory lye.
1 THy Church, Lord, in her self is poor, Like to a Bramble dry; 'Tis, Lord, in thee, in thee alone Doth all her glory lye.
2 But though a Bush, yet in it thou Dost dwell for evermore, And therefore she is not consumed Even now as heretofore.
2 But though a Bush, yet in it thou Dost dwell for evermore, And therefore she is not consum'd Ev'n now as heretofore.