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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.
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.
4 Thus by our Garments we are known, And those who han't them on, Thou wilt, O Lord, never such own, But bid them to be gone.
5 'Tis thou hast made the difference, We were ill clothed as others, But these have not the preference, None like our Elder Brother's:
5 'Tis thou hast made the difference, VVe were ill cloath'd as others, But these have not the preference, None like our Elder Brother's: