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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.
HYMN 66. The Spirit an Earnest.
1 A Great Estate is purchased, We would Possession have Of that blessed Inheritance, An Earnest therefore crave:
2 Was it not purchased, O Lord, For us by our dear Friend? O then a Pledge do thou afford, An Evidence to end
3 The Controversy that doth rise Continually within,