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Spiritual songs being the marrow of Scripture in songs of praise to Almighty God…
Spiritual songs being the marrow of Scripture in songs of praise to Almighty God from the Old and New Testament : with a hundred divine hymns on several occasions as now practised in several congregations in and about London : with a table of contents / by Benjamin Keach, author of the war with the devil.
London: printed for John Marshal, 1700
A FEAST OF Fat Things &c. Containing, One Hundred Sacred Hymns, &c. › Hymn 33: HYMN 33.
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 33.
Evil Thoughts abhorred: Or, Heart-Purity
Evil Thoughts abhorr'd: Or, Heart-Purity
1 Thy power, Lord, is very great, to change the thoughts of men; If evil thoughts so hateful be, O let us loath them then! 2 Lord, who can all his errors see? O cleanse my heart within From evil Thoughts; and keep thou me from all presumptuous Sin!
1 THy power, Lord, is very great, to change the thoughts of men; If evil thoughts so hatful be, O let us loath them then! 2 Lord, who can all his errors see? O cleanse my heart within From evil Thoughts; and keep thou me from all presumptious Sin!
3 O let not sin have power to reign in me at any time; And so shall I be free from stain, and 'scape the greatest crime! 4 Blessed, O blessed, are the Pure, who Pure are still in Heart, ⟨p. 40⟩That keep thy Testimonies sure, and from all sin depart.