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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 Because thou didst thy soul pour forth, God to thee will divide A portion with th' Kings o'th' Earth, To bring down all their pride.
6 They at thy feet their Crowns shall lay; And to thee bend their knees; The Sceptre thou alone shalt sway, And chop down all high Trees.
6 They at thy feet their Crowns shall lay; And to thee bend their knees; The Scepter thou alone shalt sway, And chop down all high Trees.
7 And though a Servant, yet a Son, And faithful was and true; And nothing thou hast left undone, Which to thee he did show.
7 And though a Servant, yet a Son, And faithful was and true; And nothing thou hast left undone, VVhich to thee he did shew.
8 But all things plainly didst declare, Even all thy Father's will, Which in thy word's left very clear, That we it might fulfil.