A47611:2534
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 Some trust in Men, and in their Wealth, And Riches do embrace, But, Lord, grant us thy saving health, And shinings of thy face.
3 Thou hast put gladness in our heart By those thy Beams divine, Much more than they who have their part Of corn, of Oil and Wine.
3 Thou hast put gladness in our heart By those thy Beams divine, Much more than they who have their part Of corn, of Oyl and Wine.
4 On thy own strength we do repose, And thereby are secure And safe from all most dreadful woes, Our dwelling-place is sure,
5 Within the Clefts of the blessed Rock From whence sweet Waters flow, And therefore will not fear that shock That Babel will o'erthrow.
5 Within the Clifts of the bless'd Rock From whence sweet Waters flow, And therefore will not fear that shock That Babel will o'rethrow.