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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.
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:
3 And as the Eagle thou dost bear Upon thy blessed Wings All thy poor Saints, and they hereby Forget all earthly things;