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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.
2 But we run out, and wasted all, Which was a mighty store; And, ah! our credit is so gone, Thou wilt trust us no more.
3 Unless 'tis so, a Surety's found, We must in Prison lye; And bear thy dreadful wrath, O God, Unto eternity.
4 Christ therefore, Lord, thou didst find out, No Friend had we to bring; All good therefore which we receive, Doth from thy bowels spring.
5 Ah! he this work did undertake, And hands for us did strike; And such a Surety, O Lord, For us O thou didst like.
6 Who faithful was, and able too, Even all our debts to pay; And all our sins thy word does show Upon him thou didst lay.