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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 149: HYMN 149. A Hymn of Praise 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.
3 Into the House of Banqueting He brings us to be fed, Love is the Banner flourishing With honour o'er our head.
3 Into the House of Banqueting He brings us to be fed, Love is the Banner flourishing VVith honour o're our head.
4 Beneath his shadow we are placed With joy and true content; His Fruit is sweet unto our taste, His Word and Sacrament.
4 Beneath his shadow we are plac'd VVith joy and true content; His Fruit is sweet unto our taste, His VVord and Sacrament.
5 O draw me my dear Saviour then With thy strong Cords of Love, And we will all run after thee As fast as we can move:
5 O draw me my dear Saviour then VVith thy strong Cords of Love, And we will all run after thee As fast as we can move:
6 And in thy Name, O Lord, we'll trust, For that's a Tower strong, Whither the Righteous oft doth fly For shelter all day long.