A47611:2324
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.
1 Great Goodness thou, O Lord, hast wrought Who can of it conceive? And those thou dost regenerate, 'Tis they do it receive:
1 GReat Goodness thou, O Lord, hast wrought Who can of it conceive? And those thou dost regenerate, 'Tis they do it receive:
2 'Tis they who are delivered From that forlorn estate They once were in when they lay dead Under thy fearful hate.
3 'Tis they whose Souls united be Unto thy self, O Lord; And have Communion too with thee, And prize thy blessed Word.
4 They are alive, and love thee dear, Thy Image also they Do in their Souls most clearly bear, And taste of thee each day.