A47611:2601
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 This World will quickly have an end, That is the Harvest-day; And Jesus will the Reapers send, They come and shall not stay.
1 THis World will quickly have an end, That is the Harvest-day; And Jesus will the Reapers send, They come and shall not stay.
2 The Angels they the Reapers be, The Wheat are God's Elect, Which shall, Lord, gathered be to thee, The Tares thou wilt reject:
3 The Tares are those vile wicked Men Who do thy Saints annoy, Which shall in Bundles bound be then, That thou mayst them destroy;
3 The Tares are those vile wicked Men Who do thy Saints annoy, Which shall in Bundles bound be then, That thou may'st them destroy;
4 And into Flames thou wilt them cast, Their Worm shall never die; The Fire too shall ever last Even to Eternity.