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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 46: HYMN 46.
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 46.
The happy Death of the Godly: Sung at the Funeral of Mr. JOHN TREDWEL.
1 Return to God, your resting place, ye sinners with all speed; By Christ, to God you must approach, for all things you do need. 2 Lord there's no rest for to be found but in thy self alone; High Praises therefore forth shall sound to Thee the holy One!
1 REturn to God, your resting place, ye sinners with all speed; By Christ, to God you must approach, for all things you do need. 2 Lord there's no rest for to be found but in thy self alone; High Praises therefore forth shall sound to Thee the holy One!
3 We sing below, but they above, in Crowns excelling Gold, Triumph in their eternal bliss, amazing to behold: 4 And each of them in Majesty do represent a King; Yea, Angels like in dignity; and with the Cherubs sing.
5 Immortal Robes they all have on, and shine like to the Sun; Let us prepare to follow them; our Glass will soon be run,