A47611:2368
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 For to recover us again, By sending of thy Son; Under thy wrath we should have lain, And ever been undone.
3 Our sin and sickness was so sore, Nothing could do us good; Nor life unto our Souls restore, But the Physicians Blood.
4 Our case was sad, woeful indeed, If it we did but know; Thou therefore sentest thy Son to bleed, Such bowels didst thou show,
4 Our case was sad, woful indeed, If it we did but know; Thou therefore sentst thy Son to bleed, Such bowels didst thou show,
5 That he for us, and in our stead Thy dreadful wrath did bear, That of his Flesh our Souls might feed, Lost strength for to repair.