A47611:1963
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
Part 6 › Hymn 117: HYMN 117. Conscience a Witness.Part 6 › Hymn 117: HYMN 117. Consience a Witness.
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.
4 The Soul as Guilty will be found, And Cast too shall such be, And by the Judge Condemned also To all eternity;
4 The Soul as Guilty will be found, And Cast too shall such be, And by the Judge Condemn'd also To all eternity;
5 Then woe to such who treacherously Their Conscience do abuse, Or stifle him whom God thinks good In this great Case to use
5 Then wo to such who treach'rously Their Conscience do abuse, Or stifle him whom God thinks good In this great Case to use
6 Even as a Witness for himself In every Man's own Heart, To Evidence to Matter of Fact, And Judgment to impart,
6 Ev'n as a Witness for himself In ev'ry Man's own Heart, To Evidence to Matter of Fact, And Judgment to impart,
7 As God's true Witness, for to clear Him who would judge aright, And make it also to appear So in each Man's own sight