A47611:1773
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 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!
5 See then that ye the Truth hold fast, And with it girted be; Then no delusion needst thou fear, Nor cursed Heresy;
5 See then that ye the Truth hold fast, And with it girted be; Then no delusion needst thou fear, Nor cursed Heresie;
6 But the right Girdle take be sure, And not the counterfeit, The true by this you may descry, Christ's Truth is stamped on it.