A47611:2721
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 206.
Psal. 1. The Blessed Man.
1 The Man is blessed that shuns the Snare Of wicked Mens advice, Whom Sinners Paths, or Scorners Chair By no means can entice:
1 THe Man is bless'd that shuns the Snare Of wicked Mens advice, Whom Sinners Paths, or Scorners Chair By no means can entice:
2 But his delight both day and night Is in God's holy Law, Wherein he waits and meditates With constant care and awe.
3 Like planted Tree by Water-Springs Shall such a Man be made, A Tree that timely Fruit brings forth, Whose Leaf shall never fade: