A47611:907
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 Man stands charged by the great God, As worthy is to die For Treason, which notorious is Against his Majesty:
3 But there's a Friend from Heaven come Who in our stead does say, That he will bear the Sinners doom, And all his debts defray.
4 Now will it stand in sacred Laws, 'Tis thou our Counsel art, Can Justice find, Lord, any flaws? Thy judgment now impart:
5 Will it hold good i' th' Court above, That guilty Sinners may This way be freed? Can this remove And take their guilt away?
6 Can God be just, and yet forgive? O bring thy sense now in! Can we acquittance, Lord, receive, And pardoned be of sin