A47611:2227
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.
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.
6 Unto a dreadful burning Lake All on a fiery flame Hell is compared; wo to them Who once do feel the same.