A47611:2034
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.
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.
3 This Bush long time on fire has been, O 'tis a wondrous sight, Though in the fire, yet not burned, This may our Souls invite