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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.
5 But yet thy love it was so great, A Journey didst thou take From Heaven to Earth, that so thou might• A Marriage with us make.
5 But yet thy love it was so great, A Journey didst thou take From Heav'n to Earth, that so thou might• A Marriage with us make.
But ah! what didst thou suffer first Before this could be done; or we were Cast, Lord, for our Lives, And Condemned every one.
But ah! what didst thou suffer first Before this could be done; or we were Cast, Lord, for our Lives, And Condemn'd every one.
And thou couldst never us obtain, Nor with us marriage make, Unless to free us from that pain Didst die, Lord, for our sake.
And this thou didst most readily, All praise unto thy Name; We purchased were with thy dear Blood, And so thine own became.
And this thou didst most readily, All praise unto thy Name; We purchas'd were with thy dear Blood, And so thine own became.