A47611:2091
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 Lord, we are Pilgrims on the Earth, As all our Fathers were; For this is not our dwelling-place, No 'biding for us here.
1 LOrd, we are Pilgrims on the Earth, As all our Fathers were; For this is not our dwelling-place, No 'biding for us here.
2 As Pilgrims go up hill and down, And meet with troubles do; So, Lord, thy Saints, while they are here, Do many sorrows know.
3 A Pilgrim is a Stranger in Those places where he lies, And therefore is not taken with Those things which he espies,
3 A Pilgrim is a Stranger in Those places where he lyes, And therefore is not taken with Those things which he espyes,
4 Or doth behold where he doth come: What are these things to me? Saith a poor Saint; I must be gone, I better things do see.