A47611:2340
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.
HYMN 156
Psal. 31.19. Goodness wrought.
1 How great is thy sweet goodness, Lord. Which for us thou hast wrought By Jesus Christ, our dearest Friend, Who our dear Souls hath bought;
1 HOw great is thy sweet goodness, Lord. VVhich for us thou hast wrought By Jesus Christ, our dearest Friend, VVho our dear Souls hath bought;
2 That so we might that goodness have, His Life he did lay down, Our Souls from Death and Hell to save, And us with glory crown.
3 And as for us, Christ wrought it out, So in us we do see The Spirit works without all doubt, That we convinced might be: