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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 2 › Hymn 38: HYMN 38. Christ a Garment of Sanctification.
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.
HYMN 38. Christ a Garment of Sanctification.
Rom. 14. ult. Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, make no provision for the flesh, &c.
1 WE naked once were all, O Lord, And loathsome were to see; Our shame was seen, and vile within, Till clothed were by thee.
1 WE naked once were all, O Lord, And loathsom were to see; Our shame was seen, and vile within, Till cloathed were by thee.
2 'Tis true, Lord, once in ancient time We gloriously were clad; Our beauty was then in its prime, Not long we so abode,
3 But we were, Lord, beset with Thieves, Who tore our Robes away; And in our blood and nakedness We a long season lay.