A47611:896
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 48. Christ a glorious Counsellor.
Isa. 9.6. Wonderful, Counsellor.
1 A Counsellor, yea and the chief, Most wonderful art thou; For we do see (for to be brief) All things, Lord, thou dost know.
1 A Counsellor, ye and the chief, Most wonderful art thou; For we do see (for to be brief) All things, Lord, thou dost know.
2 None understand all Rites and Laws But, Lord, thy self alone, And soon canst thou find out what flaws There is in any one.
3 All secrets of State is with thee, Thou knowest thy Father's Will, And agitates all things below With strange and wondrous skill.