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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 138. The Resurrection-day.
1 Thess. 4.14. Them that sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.
1 Death is a sleep, it is a rest From all our labour here, And to the Saints it is the best, And so it will appear
1 DEath is a sleep, it is a rest From all our labour here, And to the Saints it is the best, And so it will appear
2 They fall asleep in a sweet place, They sleep in Jesus do; ⟨p. 303⟩They Union have with him through Grace, Which death can't overthrow.