A47611:944
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 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.
4 Thy Church on this Foundation is Most firmly built also; From hence it is that Men cannot, Nor Devils it o'erthrow.
4 Thy Church on this Foundation is Most firmly built also; From hence it is that Men cannot, Nor Devils it o'rethrow.
5 A Foundation's laid by knowing Men, Some skilful Architect; But this Foundation thou hast laid, As wisdom did direct.