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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
Part 8 › Hymn 190: HYMN 190. Christ's Passion and Exaltation.
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.
3 To Christ the King, because that he A Feast provideth here; And tells us we all welcome be To eat of his good Cheer.
3 To Christ the King, because that he A Feast provideth here; And tells us we all welcome be To eat of his good Chear.
4 His Flesh for us doth freely give, His Blood to drink also▪ That we might never die but live, These Blessings from him flow.
5 His bleeding Wounds, out-stretched Arms, And yearning Bowels dear, To us run out for sweet support, That so we might not fear.
5 His bleeding VVounds, out-stretched Arms, And yearning Bowels dear, To us run out for sweet support, That so we might not fear.
6 Thou art the first, yea and the last, Was dead, and art alive; And lives for ay, therefore to thee All honour we must give.