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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
Part 8 › Hymn 148: HYMN 148. To be sung after the Lord's Supper.
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.
1 Thy love, O Lord, was very great To such vile ones as we; Our hearts were once dead as a stone, But now they quickened be.
1 THy love, O Lord, was very great To such vile ones as we; Our hearts were once dead as a stone, But now they quickned be.
2 Slight Balm may heal a slighter sore, But there's no Medicine good Which can to life our Souls restore, But the Physician's Blood.
2 Slight Balm may heal a slighter sore, But there's no Med'cine good Which can to life our Souls restore, But the Physician's Blood.
3 Lord Jesus when we thee espy, Though life is almost gone, We see by Faith we shall not die, All praise to thee alone
4 Who hast poured in sweet Oil and Wine To heal each wounded heart; O thou wilt heal all Souls of thine, Who for their sakes didst smart.