A47611:824
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 46. Christ the true Witness.
The Third Part.
1 A Witness must his witness bear Unto the Truth; nay he Must the whole truth likewise declare In all simplicity.
2 And nothing but the truth must speak, And speak it plainly too, A true decision clear to make, All this, Lord, thou dost do.
3 Whatever is a truth of God, Which we ought to obey, In thy New Testament 'tis found, We all the stress must lay
3 Whatever is a truth of God, VVhich we ought to obey, In thy New Testament 'tis found, VVe all the stress must lay