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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 14: HYMN 14.
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 14.
On the Birth of CHRIST.
1 Awake my Soul, awake my Tongue, my Glory 'wake and sing, And celebrate the holy Birth, the Birth of Israels King! 2 O happy Night that brought forth Light, which makes the Blind to see; ⟨p. 19⟩The day Spring from on high came down to cheer and visit thee.
1 AWake my Soul, awake my Tongue, my Glory 'wake and sing, And celebrate the holy Birth, the Birth of Israels King! 2 O happy Night that brought sorth Light, which makes the Blind to see; ⟨p. 19⟩The day Spring from on high came down to cheer and visit thee.
3 The careful Shepherds with their Flocks were watching for the Morn, But better News from Heaven was brought; your Saviour is now born! 4 In Bethlehem the Infant lies, within a place obscure, Your Saviours come, O sing Gods Praise! O sing his Praise for ever.