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Spiritual songs being the marrow of Scripture in songs of praise to Almighty God…
Spiritual songs being the marrow of Scripture in songs of praise to Almighty God from the Old and New Testament : with a hundred divine hymns on several occasions as now practised in several congregations in and about London : with a table of contents / by Benjamin Keach, author of the war with the devil.
London: printed for John Marshal, 1700
A FEAST OF Fat Things &c. Containing, One Hundred Sacred Hymns, &c. › Hymn 13: HYMN 13.
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.
1 Would Man forbear to seek revenge on such a cursed Foe, Who strives to Murder him each Day, and work his Overthrow? 2 But God waves all advantages of wrath, and vengeance too; And, by amazing Patience, doth daring Man out-do?
1 WOuld Man forbear to seek revenge on such a cursed Foe, Who strives to Murther him each Day, and work his Overthrow? 2 But God waves all advantages of wrath, and vengeance too; And, by amazing Patience, doth daring Man out-do?
3 The Creature doth disdain his God, by whom he's clothed and fed, Yet God still spares this rebel Worm, who by the Devil's led 4 To fight against his Sovereign with cruel spite and rage; Yet God doth still forbear with him, even from Age to Age.
3 The Creature doth disdain his God, by whom he's cloath'd and fed, Yet God still spares this rebel Worm, who by the Devil's led 4 To fight against his Sovereign with cruel spite and rage; Yet God doth still forbear with him, even from Age to Age.
5 Fools ask not where th' Almighty is, but Glory to him give: Is not his Being most fully proved in suffering thee to Live? 6 Was he not GOD, he could not bear such Weights as on him lie; Weak Mortals soon are set on fire, and for revenge do cry!!
5 Fools ask not where th' Almighty is, but Glory to him give: Is not his Being most fully prov'd in suffering thee to Live? 6 Was he not GOD, he could not bear such Weights as on him ly; Weak Mortals soon are set on fire, and for revenge do cry!!