A47611:622
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.
HYMN 36. Christ the Branch.
Zech. 3.8. I will bring forth my Servant, the Branch. Zech. 6.12. He shall grow out of his place, and shall build the Temple of the Lord. Zech. 6.13. Even he shall build the Temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall be Priest on the Throne, &c.
1 A Root as God, as Man also, A Branch here called art; Which does thy humane nature show, To whom God did impart
2 All fullness of the Deity It in this Branch appears; Most precious Fruit we do espy This Branch for ever bears.
2 All fulness of the Deity It in this Branch appears; Most precious Fruit we do espy This Branch for ever bears.