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HUS was the great REDEEMER
plung'd

In Jordan's fwelling flood;
To fhew He'd one day be baptiz'd
In tears, in fweat, and blood.

2. Thus was his facred body laid

Beneath the yielding wave;
Thus was bis facred body rais'd
Out of the liquid grave.

3. When lo! from realms of light and bliss The heav'nly Dove comes down ; Lights on his venerable head,

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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,
In thy own footsteps tread;
We die, are bury'd, rife with Thee
From regions of the dead.

7. Come holy SPIRIT from above,
Thy power on us display;
Approve our vows, and feal our fouls
To the redemption-day!

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IX. Jordan bonoured.

EE in what grave our SAVIOUR lay,
Before He fhed his precious blood;
How He mark'd out the humble way
To finners thro' the mystic flood.
2. The fun of righteousness his beams,
Tho' fo divinely fair and bright,
Immerg'd in Jordan's fwelling ftreams,
Submitting to this holy rite.

3.0 Jordan! honour'd oft before!
What greater glory wouldst thou have,
Than CHRIST defcending from thy fhore,
To find in thee a liquid grave?

4. Thy ftreams retir'd on either fide,
And for the holy ark made way;
A prophet's mantle could divide
Thy willing ftreams, taught to obey.
5. Plung'd by the holy Baptift's hand,
Bury'd in thee our Saviour lies;
Did not thy waters wond'ring ftand,
To fee him die, and fee him rife?
6. Bleft fepulchre! where Jesus lay,
Which JESUS for us fanctifies !
Bleft flood to wash our fins away,
And fink e'm so as ne'er to rife!

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N fuch a grave as this
The meek redeemer lay;

When He, our fouls to feek and fave,
Learn'd humbly to obey..

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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
I' th' fountain of his blood.

Oh! Sinners, wash away
Your fins of crimson die;

Bury'd with Him, your fins fhall all
In dark oblivion lie.

5. Rife, and afcend with Him,

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A heavenly life to lead ;

Who came to rescue guilty men
From regions of the dead.

LORD, fee the finner's tears,
Hear his repenting cry!
Speak, and his contrite foul fhall live ;
Speak, and his fins fhall die!

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.

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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;

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(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.

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And pant for full conformity,

To our exalted head :

We would with Thee partake
In ev'ry state below

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And fuffer all things for thy fake,
And to thy glory go.

We in thy birth are born,
Suftain thy grief and lofs,

Share in thy want and fhame and scorn,
And die upon thy cross:
Baptiz'd into thy death,
We fink into thy grave,

'Till Thou the quick'ning fpirit breathe, And to the utmott fave:

Thou faidft "Where'er I am
"There hall iny feryant be;"

Mafter, the welcome word we claim,
And die to live with Thee;

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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
Does free remiflion feal;
And that good spirit does convey,
Whofe does cleanfe and heal.
grace

5 For God's rich promise unto us

And to our race extends;
And to all fuch as Gon fhall call
To earth's remoteft ends.

6. Since then, by baptism, we put on
CHRIST and his livery;

Let us, who name that holy name,
Flee from Iniquity.

XV. Buried with CHRIST, in Baptifm. (2)

O we not know that folemn word,

Baptiz'd into his death, and then
Put off the body of our fin?

2 Our fouls receive diviner breath,
Rais'd from corruption, guilt and death;
So from the grave did CHRIST arife,
And lives to GoD above the skies.

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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
Over our mortal flesh again;

The various lufts we ferv'd before
Shall have dominion now no more.

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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:
Why fhould we then to do his will
Or be asham'd, or be afraid?

3. With Thee into thy watry Tomb,
LORD, 'tis our glory to defcend;
"Tis wond'rous grace that gives us room
To lie inter'd by fuch a friend!

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But a much more tempeftuous flood
O'erwhelm'd thy body and thy foul:
That's plung'd in tears, and fweat and blood,
And over this black terrors roll.

5. Yet as the yielding waves give way,
To let us fee the light again;
So, on thy refurrection-day,

The bands of death prov'd weak and vain.
6. Thus when thou fhalt again appear,
The gates of death fhall open wide;
Our duft thy pow'rful voice fhall hear,
Shall rife and triumph at thy fide.
7. Thefe now vile bodies then shall wear
A glorious form refembling thine;
To be diffolv'd no more fhall fear,
But with immortal beauty fhine.

XVII. Planted in the Likeness of his Death.

ATHER of mercies hear,

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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.

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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.

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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;

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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
In confort join their loud Amen.

XIX. The Ark like Baptifm, the means of

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Safety.

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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;

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try'd,
And long his vengeance dar'd;
The righteous Noah favour found,
And with his house was fpar'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;
Yet the blefs'd family furvives,
When all befide were dead.
4. At the Almighty's aweful word,
The floods retire again;
And Noab, from his myftic tomb,
Peoples the earth with men.
5. So to restore a world o'erwhelm'd
With guilt, and dead in fins,
Our SAVIOUR, rifing from the grave,
Another race begins.

6. New creatures of a heav'nly form,
His facred image bear;

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.

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8. O happy fouls whom grace revives ! Your bodies Gon hall raife;

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WHEN from Egyptian slavery
The Hebrews were

The parted feas and cov'ring cloud

A grave to Ifrael feem'd:

z. But foon the joyful tribes emerge,
And ftand upon the shore;
With grateful hearts and tuneful tongues
Their Saviour's name adore.

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He made the obfequious waves retire,
His fav'rite tribes to fave;
Made them a way to liberty,
Where Egypt found a grave.

4. As Jacob's fons baptis'd of old
To Mofes in the fea,

Sav'd by God's arm, themselves devote
His Statutes to obey.

5. So from the bondage of our fins,
Redeem'd by fov'reign grace,
We, thro' his watry fepulchre,

Our SAVIOUR's footsteps trace.
6. Our fins, the worst of enemies,
Are bury'd there and drown'd;
To a new life our fouls are rais'd,
With tender mercy crown'd.

7. To thee, O JESUS, may we live,
Devoted to thy fear!

Thee will we love, Thee will we praife,
And all thy laws revere.

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