A47611:1743

Spiritual melody

Name: Spiritual melody
Author: Benjamin Keach

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

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed for John Hancock, 1691

[24], 384 p. · 62k words · Wing K93 · ESTC R218957

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Part 5 › Hymn 99: HYMN 99. Truth likened to a Girdle.

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HYMN 99. Truth likened to a Girdle.

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Eph. 6.14. And having your Loins girt about with Truth, &c.

Eph. 6.14. And having your Loyns girt about with Truth, &c.

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1 True Grace, and true Sincerity Is like a Girdle rare, Which some about their Loins do love Continually to wear.

1 TRue Grace, and true Sincerity Is like a Girdle rare, Which some about their Loins do love Continually to wear.

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2 Like as a Girdle cleaves to Men, And doth them compass in; So Grace should cleave unto our Souls, To keep us from all sin.

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The book

Title as printed

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

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704

Place

London

Bookseller

John Hancock

Year

1691

Size

[24], 384 p.

Words

61,959

Catalogue

Wing K93 · ESTC R218957

Text

EEBO-TCP A47611

Passages

2,854

Sections

383

Title page

Spiritual melody

HYMN 99. Truth likened to a Girdle.

The Second Part.

The Third Part.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

HYMN 99. Truth likened to a Girdle.

The Second Part.

The Third Part.