A47611:901
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.
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.
3 All secrets of State is with thee, Thou know'st thy Father's Will, And agitates all things below With strange and wondrous skill.
4 'Tis thou must counsel give to us, Thy counsel it is good, ⟨p. 122⟩But woe be unto all those souls Thy counsels have withstood.
5 O then for counsel, Lord, let's come To thee continually, And to thy praise sing all our days Until we come to die.