A47611:852
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.
1 A Witness ought for to be one That is indifferent, Not biassed to either side, Therefore God has thee sent
1 A Witness ought for to be one That is indifferent, Not byassed to either side, Therefore God has thee sent
2 To be a Witness in our Case; To us thou art of kin; And equally related art Likewise too unto him.
3 We therefore have no cause at all Against thee to except, But on thy witness stand or fall, If Cast, we must subject
4 Unto the Judge of Heaven and Earth, We silent all shall be, If thou against us dost come forth, And cast we are by thee.