A47611:1760
Spiritual melody
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
London: printed for John Hancock, 1691
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.
3 Let every thing in truth be done, And Grace the Girdle be; And then with joy shall every one Their blessed Master see.
3 Let ev'ry thing in truth be done, And Grace the Girdle be; And then with joy shall ev'ry one Their blessed Master see.
4 A Girdle is an Ornament, It fastens all together, And covers Joints the Armour hath That Men cannot tell whether
4 A Girdle is an Ornament, It fastens all together, And covers Joynts the Armour hath That Men cannot tell whether
5 'Tis all one piece, or 'tis in parts, It doth them so unite; Thus doth Uprightness us adorn, That in Jehovah's sight
6 There seems no flaw, nor no defects, Uprightness covers all; God doth that Soul who is sincere, A perfect Christian call.