A47611:2045
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.
3 This shows the Churches of the Saints Do, Lord, belong to thee, Who art the glorious King of Kings, They useful also be,
3 This shews the Churches of the Saints Do, Lord, belong to thee, Who art the glorious King of Kings, They useful also be,
4 As Candlesticks in a large House, In which the Light they place; And also are for Ornament Even thus, through thine own Grace,
4 As Candlesticks in a large House, In which the Light they place; And also are for Ornament Ev'n thus, through thine own Grace,
5 Are all thy Churches here on Earth Of use, Lord, unto thee, And unto others, who likewise Thy Riches in them see.
6 Thy Candlesticks then don't remove, But let their Light so shine, That all the Earth may lighted be Into all Truths of thine.