A47611:1771
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.
1 Soul, hast thou worse defects than these, Infirmities within? Sincerity doth God so please, It covers all thy sin.
2 He it esteems so as if thou Hadst never broke his Law, And through Christ's Righteousness he doth In thee behold no flaw.
3 O get this Girdle on, ye Saints, It glitters more than Gold; It never can besides be lost, And doth its Beauty hold
4 As fresh as 'twas when first put on, O blessed Sincerity! How glorious art thou! how dost thou Shine in Jehovah's Eye!
4 As fresh as 'twas when first put on, O bless'd Sincerity! How glorious art thou! how dost thou Snine in Jehovah's Eye!