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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
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.
2 The joyful Sound that's spread abroad There's few which it do mind; For though they have it often heard, Yet not with hearts inclined
2 The joyful Sound that's spread abroad There's few which it do mind; For though they have it often heard, Yet not with hearts inclin'd
3 To that which is most truly good They have no mind at all But contrariwise despise thy Word, And do contemn thy Call:
3 To that which is most truly good They have no mind at all But contrar'wise despise thy Word, And do contemn thy Call:
4 But unto some thou dost make known Thy glorious power divine; And these are they that thou dost own, And callest also thine.
5 They do believe, and also fear; They love and do obey: They cleave to thee, and are sincere, And follow thee alway.