A47611:2093
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 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.
5 A Pilgrim loves good company, Don't care to go alone; So do God's Saints delight in such Who do Christ Jesus own;
6 And walk with them in the same way, If that they be sincere, ⟨p. 294⟩They prize their precious company, They helpful to each are.