Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark
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Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark
Author
Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.
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London :: printed for John Hancock, in Castle-Alley, near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill,
1691.
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Hymns, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47611.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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The Seventh Part.
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All thy whole mind and counsel isEither by thee or thineOwn blest Apostles plainly known,There is no truth divine
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But it in Precepts may be found,Or Presidents to lye;For both these are our rule, and ofEqual authority.
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A Witness ends each doubtful caseWhich long sometimes depend;So thou wilt also very plainEach doubtful matter end.
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A Witness doth his witness give,If it be just and trueTo righteousness, to undeceiveSuch which before he knew
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To be false Men, and wittinglyThe matter would evade;But so their evidence does try,A stop to all is made.
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So thou, O Lord, to righteounessThy witness dost bring in,That all false Souls who are deceiv'dBy Satan or by sin,
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Shall be convinc'd, and silent beBy thy own faithful word;And all their' foolish Pleas they'll seeNo help will them afford.
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