A47611:973
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 But ah! thy bowels far exceed All Creatures here below; For thou for Sinners, Lord, didst bleed, Compassion great to show.
4 The Hen herself to weakness brings Whilst of her young takes care, How does she scratch and strive each day To feed them here and there?
5 But, Lord, thou broughtest thy self so low That we might all be fed, ⟨p. 132⟩That in the grave a while didst lye After that thou wast dead:
5 But, Lord, thou brought'st thy self so low That we might all be fed, ⟨p. 132⟩That in the grave a while didst lye After that thou wast dead:
6 And as a Hen does cluck and call According to her kind, Thereby to save her Chickens all From Kites, which she does find