A47611:584
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.
4 This Vessel, Lord, is the whole Earth That now abounds with sin; Thou wilt it empty o'er a while, And fill it full again.
4 This Vessel, Lord, is the whole Earth That now abounds with sin; Thou wilt it empty o're a while, And fill it full agen.
5 Nay, thou wilt turn it upside down, As some their Vessels do; To empty it of wickedness, Which now aboundeth so.
6 And then the earth with knowledge shall As Seas with water swell, Be filled, Lord, and that by thee, As Holy Writ does tell.
7 And well it is thou hast so much Water of life in thee; For all our Vessels empty are, Besides they likely be.