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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.
3 But thou allied art to the Judge, And for our Souls didst die; The Merits of thy Blood mayst urge, To thee we all do fly.
3 But thou ally'd art to the Judge, And for our Souls didst die; The Merits of thy Blood may'st urge, To thee we all do fly.
4 Thou legally art called to th' Barr, And hast thy Father's Ear; Alas we all so loathsome be, We dare not there appear
4 Thou legally art call'd to th' Barr, And hast thy Father's Ear; Alas we all so loathsom be, VVe dare not there appear
5 In our own persons; he is just, And we must guilty be; We righteousness all therefore must Have only, Lord, of thee.
6 Thou never didst miscarry yet On what thou tookest in hand; Our Enemies do thou defeat, That sentence do demand.
6 Thou never didst miscarry yet On what thou took'st in hand; Our Enemies do thou defeat, That sentence do demand.