HUS was the great REDEEMER In Jordan's fwelling flood; 2. Thus was his facred body laid Beneath the yielding wave; 3. When lo! from realms of light and bliss The heav'nly Dove comes down ; Lights on his venerable head, 4. Which rays of glory crown. While his eternal FATHER's voice An aweful joy excites; "This is my well-beloved SON, "In whom my foul delights.' 5. The myftic rite his death defcrib'd, His burial did forefhew; The quick'ning of his facred flesh, His refurrection too. 6. LORD, thy own precept we obey, 7. Come holy SPIRIT from above, 1. SEE IX. Jordan bonoured. EE in what grave our SAVIOUR lay, 3.0 Jordan! honour'd oft before! 4. Thy ftreams retir'd on either fide, N fuch a grave as this When He, our fouls to feek and fave, 2. 3. 4. See how the fpotless LAMB Defcends into the stream! And teaches finners not to fcorn What Him fo well became. His body fanctifies The falutary flood; And teaches us to plunge our fouls Oh! Sinners, wash away Bury'd with Him, your fins fhall all 5. Rife, and afcend with Him, 6. 7. 1. A heavenly life to lead ; Who came to rescue guilty men LORD, fee the finner's tears, Speak with that mighty voice, Which one day, wide shall spread It fummons thro' the earth and sea, To wake and raife the dead! XI. I CHRIST's Invitation to a Penitent. IF you'll be mine, take up your cross, And tread the narrow way; Plung'd in the myftic flood, I fhew'd My death a future day. 2 You fee the flood, and, by it taught, You must to death fubmit If call'd to fuffer for my fake, And grace fhall make you fit. 3. The mystic death for grace made way; The real glory brings; (b) This Hymn and the XIII. XVII. XXIII. are taken from a Book of Hymns, for the Lord's Supper, published by the Revd. John and Charles Welley. 2. 4. 5. And pant for full conformity, To our exalted head : We would with Thee partake ; And fuffer all things for thy fake, We in thy birth are born, Share in thy want and fhame and scorn, 'Till Thou the quick'ning fpirit breathe, And to the utmott fave: Thou faidft "Where'er I am Mafter, the welcome word we claim, 3. For if the image of his death, We in his emblem wear; We in his refurrection too, Shall his refemblance bear. 4. Baptifin to all the penitent 5 For God's rich promise unto us And to our race extends; 6. Since then, by baptism, we put on Let us, who name that holy name, XV. Buried with CHRIST, in Baptifm. (2) O we not know that folemn word, Baptiz'd into his death, and then 2 Our fouls receive diviner breath, fm. (i) 3. The badge of our conformity, Unto our dying head. 2. That as the FATHER'S glorious pow'r Did Him when dead revive; So we, by grace reftor'd anew, An heav'nly life might live. (1) This Hymn by the late Revd. J. Boyse, Minifter of Wood-ftrect meeting. No more let fin or fatan reign The various lufts we ferv'd before Went humbly down from Jordan's fhore, 3. To find a Tomb beneath a wave. 2. "Thus it becomes us to fulfil "All righteousness" He meekly faid: 3. With Thee into thy watry Tomb, 4. But a much more tempeftuous flood 5. Yet as the yielding waves give way, The bands of death prov'd weak and vain. XVII. Planted in the Likeness of his Death. ATHER of mercies hear, FA Thro' thine atoning SoN, Who doth for us in heav'n appear, And prays before thy throne! 2. By that great facrifice, Which he for us doth plead, Into our Saviour's death baptize, And make us like our head. 4. Into the fellowship Of Jesu's fuff'rings take Us who defire with Him to fleep, That we with him may wake. Plant us into his death, That we his life may prove; Partakers of his cross beneath, And of his crown above. XVIII. Joy for converted and purified Sinners. I. 3. ; 2. Well may the church below rejoice, And echo back the heavenly found "This foul was dead, but now's alive This fheep was loft, but now is found. See how the willing converts trace The path their great redeemer trod And follow through his liquid grave, 1 The meek the lowly Son of GOD. 4. Here in the holy laver plung'd, Their fouls are cleans'd from ev'ry They die, defcend into the tomb, By grace they live, and rise again. 5. Here they renounce their former deeds, And to a heavenly life afpire; ftain Their rags for glorious robes exchang'd, They fhine in clean and white attire. 6. O facred rite! by this the name Of Jesus we to own begin; This is our refurrection's pledge, And feals the pardon of our fin. 7. Glory to GoD on high be giv'n, Who fhews this grace to finful men ; Let faints on earth and hofts of heav'n XIX. The Ark like Baptifm, the means of 1. Safety. 1. Refin'd and fit for your abode, To live, and fing his praise. XX. Ifrael baptifed in the Red Sea. THEN the old world God's patience We Hope & fire redeem'd; WE try'd, 2. In fecret chambers of the ark Secure from harm they lie; When th' ocean broke its bounds, and floods Burft from the melting sky. 3. Proud waters o'er the mountains roll, And ruin widely spread; 6. New creatures of a heav'nly form, While, dead to fin, they live to God, And in white robes appear. 7. Bury'd in their Redeemer's grave, With Him they live and rife While the loft race of human kind In fin and ruin lies. ; 8. O happy fouls whom grace revives ! Your bodies Gon hall raife; WH WHEN from Egyptian slavery The parted feas and cov'ring cloud A grave to Ifrael feem'd: z. But foon the joyful tribes emerge, 3. He made the obfequious waves retire, 4. As Jacob's fons baptis'd of old Sav'd by God's arm, themselves devote 5. So from the bondage of our fins, Our SAVIOUR's footsteps trace. 7. To thee, O JESUS, may we live, Thee will we love, Thee will we praife, |