A47611:941
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 49. Christ the only Foundation.
• Cor. 3.11. Another Foundation can no Man lay, but that which is already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1 WE have, O Lord, a House to raise, And would have it stand sure, And never know the least decays, But firm abide for ever:
2 And that we might thus build our souls Thou the Foundation art; Here build we must our House, O Lord, The whole and every part.
2 And that we might thus build our souls Thou the Foundation art; Here build we must our House, O Lord, The whole and ev'ry part.
3 God hath himself in mercy great This sure Foundation laid, That so to build our hopes on thee We might not be afraid.