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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
Part 2 › Hymn 52: HYMN 52. Christ bears his Saints as an Eagle.
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 52. Christ bears his Saints as an Eagle.
Exod. 19.4. I bore you on Eagles wings.
1 The Eagle is the King of Birds, Ah! who is like to thee Who is so strong? or hath an Eye So quick, and far to see?
1 THe Eagle is the King of Birds, Ah! who is like to thee Who is so strong? or hath an Eye So quick, and far to see?
2 Like to an Eagle thou dost mount, Or didst ascend on high, Not only up unto the Clouds, But far above the sky:
2 Like to an Eagle thou dost mount, Or didst ascend on high, Not only up unto the Clouds, But far above the skie: