A47611:1776
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.
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.
6 But the right Girdle take be sure, And not the counterfeit, The true by this you may descry, Christ's Truth is stampt on it.
7 It with the written Word agrees Exact in every thing; If all Christ's Precepts you don't own, Contempt on you 'twill bring.
7 It with the written Word agrees Exact in ev'ry thing; If all Christ's Precepts you don't own, Contempt on you 'twill bring.
8 That Girdle will not hold but break, Though you may seem sincere ⟨p. 247⟩So far as you cleave unto Truth, Yet will at last appear
9 A false Professor, 'cause you have Some blessed Truth withstood, Into which you did Light receive, But not obey it would.