SONG. XL. A Funerall Song.
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Sing this as the ninth Song.
1
I am the Life (the LORD thus saith)
The Resurrection is through me;
And whosoe're in me hath Faith,
Shall liue, yea though now dead he be:
And he for euer shall not die,
That liuing doth on me relye.
2
That my Redeemer liues I weene,
And that at last I rais'd shall be
From Earth, and, couer'd with my skinne
In this my Flesh, my GOD shall see.
Yea, with these Eies, and these alone,
Eu'n I my GOD shall looke vpon.
3
Into the World we naked come,
And naked backe againe we goe:
The LORD our wealth receiue we from,
And he doth take it from vs too:
The LORD both wils and workes the same;
And blessed therefore be his Name.
4
From Heau'n there came a voyce to me,
And this it wil'd me to record;
The Dead from henceforth blessed be,
The Dead, that dieth in the LORD:
The Spirit thus doth likewise say;
For, from their Workes at rest are they.
