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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.
HYMN 193. Signs of the last Day upon us.
The Fourth Part.
1 The Fig-Tree, Lord, does now put forth, The Summer doth draw near, The Sea doth roar, (as thy Word saith,) And Men begin to fear.
1 THe Fig-Tree, Lord, does now put forth, The Summer doth draw near, The Sea doth roar, (as thy VVord saith,) And Men begin to fear.
2 The Winter certainly is gone, The lovely Birds do sing; The Spring is now a coming on, Which lasting joy will bring.
2 The VVinter certainly is gone, The lovely Birds do sing; The Spring is now a coming on, VVhich lasting joy will bring.
3 The voice of the sweet Turtle too Is heard in this our Land, What clearer Signs, Lord, canst thou show By thy own wondrous Hand,