3 "Repent, and be baptiz'd" he faith,
"For the remiffion of your fins;
And thus our fenfe affifts our faith,
And fhews us what the gospel means.

4. Our fouls he washes in his blood,
As water makes the body clean;
And the good spirit from our God
Defcends like purifying rain.

5 Thus we engage ourselves to thee,
Confirm our cov'nant with the Lord :

O may the great Eternal THREE,

In heav'n our folemn vows record.

CCLXXIX.

Believers

buried

with Chrift in Baptifm. Rom. vi. 3, 4. &c.

'D

O we not know that folemn word,
That we are bury'd with the Lord;
Baptiz'd into his death, and then
Put off the body of our fin?

2 Our fouls receive deviner breath,
Rais'd from corruption, guilt, and death:
So from the grave did Chrift arise
And lives to God above the skies.

3 No more let fin or fatan reign

Over our mortal flesh again;

The

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

T

HUS fpake our dear redeeming Lord, "All pow'r in earth and heav'n

"To me, triumphant o'er the grave "Is by my Father giv❜n.

2" Go, teach to ev'ry nation now, "What you have learn'd of me ; 66 Baptize them in the awful name "Of the Eternal THREE.

3

"Teach them whatever I command;
"My prefence I affure,

"To crown your labours with fuccefs,
" While heav'n and earth endure.”!

4

Lord! we thy wondrous grace adore,
Thy awful word revere ;

Thy death, and refurrection too,
Our baptism makes appear.

5

The promise of thy presence now,

Our joyful hopes doth raise ;

Defcend O Lord, and own thy work,
And our glad tongues fhall praife.

CCLXXXI.

CCLXXXI. Encouragement for Penitents at the Ordinance of

Baptism.⠀

C

1

NOME lowly fouls that mourn,
Deprefs'd with grief and shame;

Wash'd in your Saviour's cleanfing blood,
Now call upon his name.

2 Rejoice ye contrite hearts,
That tremble at his word;
In the baptifmal laver plung'd,
As was your humble Lord.

3 Bath'd in repenting tears,
The fins which you deplore,
Dead in your Saviour's grave fhall lie,
And shall be seen no more.

4 Ye who in Chrift believe,
And to his fceptre bow...

Sing your Redeemer's love, and tell
What he has done for you.'

5 Unfpotted robes you wear,
Your fighs to fongs are turn'd;
Garments of praise adorn you now,
Who late in afhes mourn'd.

6. Ye, with your Lord are ris'n
Afpire to things above:

A

Manfions

Manfions for you your Lord prepares
In realms of light and love.

The Baptifm of

CCLXXXII.

Chrift our Pattern.

Mat. iii.

13, &c. Rom. vi. 3, 4.

HUS was the great Redeemer plung'd
In Jordan's fwelling flood;
To fhew he'd one day be baptiz'd ·

In tears, and fweat, and blood.

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

3 When lo! from realms of light and blifs,
The heav'nly dove comes down ;
Lights on his venerable head,
Which rays of glory crown.

4 While his Eternal Father's voice
An awful joy excites ;

This is " my well-beloved Son,
"In whom my foul delights."

5 Lord, thy own precept we obey
In thy own footsteps tread,
We die, are bury'd, rife with thee,
From regions of the dead.

6 We look to thee, thou Saviour dear,
Bless us with pow'r divine;

We would fhew forth thy glory here,
And be for ever thine.

CCLXXXIII. The
The Baptifm of
Chriftians resembling that of the
Ifraelites. 1 Cor. x. I, 2.

I

W

HEN from Egyptian flavery
The Hebrews were redeem'd,
The parted feas, and cov'ring cloud
A grave to Ifrael feem'd,

2 But foon the joyful tribes emerge,
And ftand upon the mhore,

With grateful hearts, and tuneful tongues,
Their Saviour's name adore.

3 Thus Jacob's fons, baptiz'd of old,
To Mofes, in the fea;
Redeem'd from Pharoah's cruel hand,
They fafe went on their way.

4 So from the bondage of our fins,
Redeem'd by fov'reign grace;
We thro' his watry fepulchre
Our Saviour's footsteps trace.

5

Our fouls, from fatan's thraldom free,

We give ourselves to God;

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