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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
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.
The Second Part.
1 No Needle-work was e'er so fine Bespangled with Gold, As is ihe Robe of Righteousness To all who it behold.
1 No Needle-work was e're so fine Bespangled with Gold, As is ihe Robe of Righteousness To all who it behold.
2 Thus is thy grace compared, Lord, With which thou dost adorn The Souls of thy most blessed Saints, Whose Garments once were torn,
2 Thus is thy grace compared, Lord, With which thou dost adorn The Souls of thy most blessed Saints, VVhose Garments once were torn,
3 And nothing had to cover them, But filthy Rags so vile, That thou our Image didst contemn, Since we thy own did spoil.