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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.
4 O what a kind of Love is this The Father grants to us, To be the Sons of God above, And him to call us thus!
5 We know not now what we shall see, Yet this thou dost declare, That like to thee we all shall be, When thou dost next appear.
6 True Faith let's have on Christ to rest, And Hope, which cannot fail; That does take hold, Lord Christ, of thee Who art within the veil.
6 True Faith let's have on Christ to rest, And Hope, which cannot fail; That does take hold, Lord Christ, of thee Who art within the vail.
7 And then, O Lord, if Storms arise, And Seas afresh should roar, We shall in thee secured be Now and for evermore.