Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “God gave them the Holy Ghost, purifying their hearts by faith.”—[Acts] xv. 8, 9. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 298.

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