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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.
The foolish Sinner little thinks What sorrows will abound Within himself, when on the brink Of Tophet he is found.
Hell is, alas, beyond all thought So frightful, and forlorn; No mortal Creature can relate The pangs that there are born.
God will exclude them evermore From his most blessed face: And them involve in misery, In shame, and in disgrace.
5 God is the Fountain of all Good, Of Life, of Light and peace; They then must needs be wretched all Who are deprived of these.
5 God is the Fountain of all Good, Of Life, of Light and peace; They then must needs be wretched all Who are depriv'd of these.
6 Unto a dreadful burning Lake All on a fiery flame Hell is compared; woe to them Who once do feel the same.