A47611:396
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 They do it likewise for their gain, But thou dost all in love; And poor wast made for us, O Lord, Who rich was once above.
3 To make us sound and whole at heart, And heal our souls for ever, Thou didst with all thy riches part, And grievous pains endure.
4 The dead to life they cannot raise, But this, Lord, thou dost do; And hadst not thou, Lord, quickened us, We had been lost we know.
4 The dead to life they cannot raise, But this, Lord, thou dost do; And hadst not thou, Lord, qaickned us, We had been lost we know.
5 They cannot bless Physic they give, Neither know the success; But all that Means which does us good, Lord, thou to us dost bless.
5 They cannot bless Physick they give, Neither know the success; But all that Means which does us good, Lord, thou to us dost bless.