A47611:740
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 According as the matter is On which the Sun does shine; So doth it always operate, So do those rays of thine
5 To one whose heart thou hast made soft Thy word a savour is Of life unto life, but to some Savour of death 'tis.
6 The Sun doth ripen things we see To bring the harvest on; So we are ripened, Lord, by thee, And for thee, every one.
6 The Sun doth ripen things we see To bring the harvest on; So we are ripen'd, Lord, by thee, And for thee, every one.
7 Thus do thy glories, Lord, appear, By these things we may know ⟨p. 100⟩What rare perfections in thee are, And from thee also flow.