A47611:967
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 50. Christs bowels showed by a Hen.
HYMN 50. Christs bowels shewed by a Hen.
Matth. 23.37. How often would I have gathered thy Children together, as a Hen gathereth her Chickens under her Wings.
1 Thy Bowels unto Sinners, Lord, Is showed by the Hen, Who in her care of all her young Doth far exceed some Men.
1 THy Bowels unto Sinners, Lord, Is shewed by the Hen, Who in her care of all her young Doth far exceed some Men.
2 How will she fly into the face Of such who would destroy Her pretty Brood! she cant endure They should them once annoy.