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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.
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.
3 Death can't dissolve that blessed Knot, That union doth remain, And unto Jesus Christ do go, Death unto Saints is gain.
4 But though the Sinner falls asleep, His sleep is troublesome; His Spirits shall no rest receive Till the last day doth come;
5 But under wrath and dreadful Ire His Spirit then shall lye; When death dos come, he feels Hell-fire, He sleeps in misery.