A47611:992
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.
The Second Part.
1 Gold when 'tis tried, 'tis pure made By the Refiners art; So by afflictions thou dost, Lord, More holy make each heart.
1 Gold when 'tis triy'd, 'tis pure made By the Refiners art; So by afflictions thou dost, Lord, Mor'e holy make each heart.
2 From hence we may the reason see Why God afflictions brings, And clearly also may discern What profit from them springs.
3 We fitted are hereby, O Lord, For our own Master's turn, Who golden Vessels will make us Before that he has done.
4 When you refined by trials are, What cause have you to sing, And praise the Lord that ever he Did you in's Furnace fling.