Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.

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Title: Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.
Author: Barton, William, 1598?-1678.
Publication: London :: Printed by J. Heptinstall for William Cooper ...,; 1688.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Paraphrases, English.; Hymns, English.
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IN Holy Hills the Ground-work lies
of Sion's Edifice:
 [verse 2]  Whose Gates beyond all Jacob's Land
the Lord doth love and prize.

 [verse 3]  O City of God renown'd and fam'd,
thy Converts are proclaim'd:
 [verse 4] Egypt for one, and Babylon,
I to my friends have nam'd.

Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiop' there
was born, and made an heir:
 [verse 5]  And Sion, they shall point and say,
did this and that man bear.

And the most High shall stablish her,
and such mens birth refer
 [verse 6]  To Sion Mount: so make his count
when he doth register.

As well the voice of him that sings,
as he that tunes the strings
 [verse 7]  Of musick sweet, therein shall meet:
in thee are all my Springs.