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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.
3 A Woman when her travel comes From crying can't refrain, So thou wilt cry for Scions sake Like her in grievous pain.
3 A Woman when her travel comes From crying can't refrain, So thou wilt cry for Sions sake Like her in grievous pain.
4 A woman in her travel strives Her Child for to bring forth, So thou deliverance for thy Church Wilt work throughout the Earth.
5 Afflicted thou dost seem to be For thy poor Scions sake, And therefore on her Enemies Dread Vengeance thou wilt take.
5 Afflicted thou dost seem to be For thy poor Sions sake, And therefore on her Enemies Dread Vengeance thou wilt take.
6 When pangs do on a Woman seize, Deliverance is near. So of thy Foes thou soon wilt ease Thy self it does appear.