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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 53: HYMN 53. Christ the Capt. of our Salvation.
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.
1 Thou art our Captain-General, Thy Commission sealed is; Rouse up ye Soldiers great and small, No Captain like to this.
1 THou art our Captain-General, Thy Commission sealed is; Rouze up ye Soldiers great and small, No Captain like to this.
2 Thou hast the power given thee To raise a mighty Host, And thou beats up to bring them in Daily from every Coast.
3 'Tis thou dost nominate who shall Have office under thee, And they Commissions have likewise Who rightly entered be.
3 'Tis thou dost nominate who shall Have office under thee, And they Commissions have likewise Who rightly entred be.
4 Thou hast thy Soldiers names set down In thy own Muster-roll, ⟨p. 137⟩Within the blessed Book of Life Is written every Soul: