A47611:625
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 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.
3 The Branch is of the self same kind With the Root of the Tree; The self-same nature we do find That Abraham's Children be
Of, thou didst take, that so thereby We might assurance have, That every way thou fitted art Our precious souls to save.
5 A Branch partakes too of the Sap Which in the Root does lye; ⟨p. 84⟩So in the Virgins Womb was fed Thy blest Humanity.