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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 How useful is an Arm to us, The body to defend? So is thy love and power, Lord, On which we do depend.
2 How usefull is an Arm to us, The body to defend? So is thy love and power, Lord, On which we do depend.
3 The Arm bears up and does support Such who most feeble be; Thy weak and feeble Saints also, Are, Lord, born up by thee.
4 The Arm the Body does protect, And save it from all harms; So thou dost us defend and save By thy Almighty Arms.
5 We with our Arms embrace our Friend, And hug such we do love; We by thine Arms of power and grace Embraced are from above.
5 We with our Arms embrace our Friend, And hug such we do love; We by thine Arms of power and grace Embrac'd are from above.