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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.
3 All Gold and Silver, Precious-stones, No Wood, Hay nor Stubble; And living ones they must be all, Believers meek and humble.
4 As the Foundation doth uphold The whole Fabric; Thou dost bear up each Stone, O Lord, All Members to thee stick:
4 As the Foundation doth uphold The whole Fabrick; Thou dost bear up each Stone, O Lord, All Members to thee stick:
5 Each Soul thou dost unite to thee In sure bonds of Love; O there's a blessed harmony 'Mong Saints born from above.
6 Without this safe Foundation, Lord, No Building's there at all; If any do not on thee build, Their Souls and hopes will fall: