The Holy Spirit is the seal

The Holy Spirit is the seal

The foretaste

earnest

and the pledge.

He designates us as God’s own

And guarantees our heritage.

’Twas after we believed in Christ

The word of truth

the gospel

heard

The Holy Spirit us did seal

To show that we belong to God.

This Spirit as the living seal

To us God’s image now imparts;

Conforming us unto the Son

He stamps His image in our hearts.

This Spirit also is the pledge

Our earnest and our foretaste true.

He witnesses that we are sons

With God’s inheritance in view.

’Tis by this Spirit God does spread

Into our mind

emotion

will;

By sealing every inward part

He will our very being fill.

Oh Lord

we would cooperate

With all Thy Spirit’s inward move;

That we’d become Thy masterpiece

Th’ eternal purpose thus to prove.