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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 For all their spite I've set my King Upon his holy Throne; And what I had decreed before, Proclaimed him now my Son.
4 For all their spite I've set my King Upon his holy Throne; And what I had decreed before, Proclaim'd him now my Son.
5 This is the Birth-day of his Rule, Thy Sceptre I'll advance O'er all the Earth, the Gentiles give For thine Inheritance.
5 This is the Birth-day of his Rule, Thy Scepter I'll advance Or'e all the Earth, the Gentiles give For thine Inheritance.
6 Thou with an Iron Rod shalt bruise Their disobedient Neck; Like brittle Potsherds all their Powers Without resistance break.
6 Thou with an Iron Rod shalt bruise Their disobedient Neck; Like brittle Potsherds all their Pow'rs Without resistance break.