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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 130. Afflictions a Rod.
Job 9.34. Let him take his Rod from me.
1 Lord, if we thy Word transgress, And against thee offend, Thou wilt chastise us, more or less, By trials thou dost send:
1 LOrd, if we thy Word transgress, And against thee offend, Thou wilt chastise us, more or less, By tryals thou dost send:
2 But thou wilt not thy love remove, Thy Covenant is sure; 'Tis but our Souls to try and prove To make us all more pure.
3 Fathers, we know, have divers Rods, And as the offence may be, They lighter or the heavier strike, And so likewise doth he.