A47611:2192
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 Now, now the Books shall opened be, The Judgment-day is come; And Christ will judge impartially, And Sinners shall be dumb;
3 Nothing to say: Ah! no excuse • All silent, all are mute, And shall the Sentence now receive, Which wrath will execute.
4 Rejoice, ye Saints, for Christ will say, O Come who are blessed! Ye blessed of my Father, now With joy lift up your head,
4 Rejoyce, ye Saints, for Christ will say, O Come who are blessed! Ye blessed of my Father, now With joy lift up your head,
5 And take the Kingdom long prepared For you: But ah! alas! ⟨p. 306⟩The wicked then will howl and cry To see their woeful case.