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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.
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.