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The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament
The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament: faithfully translated into English metre. ; For the use, edification and comfort of the saints in public and private: especially in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture references and texts]The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament: faithfully translated into English metre. ; For the use, edification and comfort of the saints in publick and private: especially in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture references and texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
There where thy mother thee conceived under the apple tree: Where she thee bare• that brought thee forth I there up-raised thee. verse 6 Me as a seal set on thy heart, as on thine arm a seal: ⟨p. 382⟩For love is strong as death, and fierce as hell, is jealous zeal.
There where thy mother thee conceiv'd under the apple tree: Where she thee bare• that brought thee forth I there up-raised thee. verse 6 Me as a seal set on thy heart, as on thine arm a seal: ⟨p. 382⟩For love is strong as death, and fierce as hell, is jealous zeal.
The coals thereof are coals of fire, most ardent is its flame. verse 7 Much waters cannot quench this love, nor can floods drown the same: If all the substance of his house a man would give for love, It nevertheless would utterly a price contemned prove.
The coals thereof are coals of fire, most ardent is its flame. verse 7 Much waters cannot quench this love, nor can floods drown the same: If all the substance of his house a man would give for love, It ne'retheless would utterly a price contemned prove.
verse 8 A little sister 'tis we have, but yet no breasts hath she: What shall we for our sister do, when she bespoke shall be? verse 9 A silver tower we'll on her build, if that a wall she be, And if a door, then her enclose with cedar-boards will we.