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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 4. God a Husbandman.
Joh. 15.1. God compared to a Husbandman.
1 Rich Husbandmen have House and Land Both moist and also dry, God o'er the Earth hath the Command, And true propriety.
1 RIch Husbandmen have House and Land Both moist and also dry, God o're the Earth hath the Command, And true propriety.
2 The beasts of th' field and fowls of th' Air, With Silver, and the Gold Is all the Lords, yea, and what else Our Eyes can here behold.
3 He may give it to whom he will, And then take it away: He makes men rich, and makes them poor, And none dare him gain-say.