A47611:488
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.
3 Thy Majesty is full of dread, And with thy awful frown, As Lions do, so wilt thou roar, And tear great Babel down.
4 A Lion is the King of Beasts, And also very strong; That thou art King of all the Earth, They all shall know ere long.
4 A Lion is the King of Beasts, And also very strong; That thou art King of all the Earth, They all shall know e're long.
5. Thou like a Lion wilt revenge The injury done to thine; ⟨image 46⟩And righteously retaliate On such who did design
6 The ruin of thy chosen ones, Whom they have sadly spoiled; For thou hast heard their bitter groans, Whilst Foes have them reviled.
6 The ruin of thy chosen ones, Whom they have sadly spoyl'd; For thou hast heard their bitter groans, Whilst Foes have them revil'd.