A47611:2550
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.
1 O Happy Souls who look to thee, And presently do mourn And grieve for their iniquity, Seeing what thou hast born.
2 O Lord, how did our horrid sin Upon thee heavy lye! We pierced thee once and again By our iniquity.
2 O Lord, how did our horrid sin Upon thee heavy lye! VVe pierced thee once and agen By our iniquity.
3 O let us look until we love, And thee with joy embrace; Men will loath Sin and it forsake When they receive thy Grace.
3 O let us look until we love, And thee with joy embrace; Men will loath Sin and it forsake VVhen they receive thy Grace.
4 And since there is for us relief In thee, O Saviour dear, Let's throw away all Unbelief, And joyful all appear.