9 While emerging-when emerged, May I think how Jesus rose, After he had been baptized,

In a flood of blood and tears; All for sinners, &c.

Whom the father in him chose.

To be sung after the administration of the Or

dinance.

10 Now since I have been baptized, In the triune sacred name;

May I, Jesus, by thee guided,

Bear thy cross, despise the shame:

By thy spirit, &c.

Seal me thine, for ever thine!

11 Purge my heart, preserve my conscience, From the love and guilt of sin;

If I'm of thy dear-bought purchase,
Cleanse me, make me pure within:
Saviour keep me, &c.

Ever near thy sacred side.

12 Then when I am done with shadows,
And my trials here shall cease;
May I, Jesus, in thy presence,
Dwell in sweet eternal peace ;
There to praise thee, &c.
For thy free amazing grace!

CXXXIX. 8s. MS.

Baptism.

1 JESUS, Master, O discover,
Love unto us, while we stand,
On this bank of Schuylkill* river,
To attend thy great command.

* At the North river, sing-Hudson.

2 Make this stream like Jordan blessed, Wherein thou baptized wast;

At this stonet be thou confessed,

While the stone or stream shall last,
3 Here the world, the flesh, the devil,
We do solemnly renounce;
Here profess to cease from evil,
And a life to God announce.
4 Be this stonet a lasting token,
Stonet of witness bear record,
Should we, after all we've spoken,
Leave the truth-forsake the Lord.
5 Help us, thou baptized Jesus,
Thy dear name to honour still;
From our fears of failing case us;
Form and mould us to thy will.

CXL. 112th.

IN

Carey's Tune. RIPPON'S
SELEC.

Christ baptized in Jordan.

́N Jordan's tide the Baptist stands,
Immersing the repenting Jews;
The Son of God the rite demands,
Nor dares the holy man refuse:
Jesus descends beneath the wave,
The emblem of his future grave.

2 Wonder, ye heavens! your Maker lies
In deeps conceal'd from human view;
Ye saints, behold him sink and rise,
A fit example thus for you:

The sacred record while you read,
Calls you to imitate the deed.

† Or place.

But lo! from yonder opening skies,
What beams of dazzling glory spread!
Dove-like th' Eternal Spirit flies,

And lights on the Redeemer's head;
Amaz'd they see the power divine,
Around the Saviour's temples shine.
4 But hark, my soul, hark and adore!
What sounds are those that roll along,
Not like loud Sinai's awful roar,

But soft and sweet as Gabriel's song! "This is my well-beloved Son,

"I see, well pleas'd what he hath done.” 5 Thus the Eternal Father spoke,

Who shakes creation with a nod;
Through parting skies the accents broke,
And bid us hear the Son of God;
O hear the awful word to-day,
Hear all ye nations, and obey!

CXLI. 8, 8, 6. NORMAN.

Thus it becometh us &c. Matt. iii. 15.

THUS

HUS it became the Prince of grace, And thus should all the favour'd race High heaven's command fulfil;

For that the condescending God

Should lead his followers through the flood,

Was heaven's eternal will.

2 'Tis not as led by custom's voice,
We make these ways our favour'd choice,
And thus with zeal pursue :

No; heaven's eternal sovereign Lord
Ilas, in the precepts of his word,
Enjoin'd us thus to do.

3 And shall we ever dare despise
The gracious mandate of the skies,
Where conscending heaven,
To sinful man's apostate race,
In matchless love and boundless grace,
His will reveal'd has given?

4 Thou everlasting gracious King,
Assist us now thy grace to sing,
And still direct our way,

peace

and rest,

To those bright realms of
Where all th' exulting tribes are bless'd
With one great choral day.

CXLII. 8, 7. Welsh Tune.

H

FAWCETT.

Invitation to follow the Lamb.

APPY souls, who feel salvation,

Through the Lamb's redeeming blood,

Hear the voice of revelation,

Tread the path that Jesus trod.
Found in him, your only Saviour,
In his mighty name confide;
In the whole of your behaviour
Own him as your sovereign guide :
2 Hear the bless'd Redeemer call you,
Listen to his gracious voice;
Dread no ills that can befal you,

While you make his ways your choice:
Jesus says "Let each believer

"Be baptized in my name:"

He himself, in Jordan's river,

Was immers'd beneath the stream.
3 Plainly hear his footsteps tracing,
Follow him without delay,
Gladly his command embracing,
Lo! your Captain leads the way!

View the rite with understanding;

Jesus' grave before you

lies;

Be interr'd at his commanding,

After his example rise.

DAY OF JUDGMENT.

CXLIII. 8, 7, 4. Helmsley Tune. RIP. PON'S SELEC.

Judgment. Rev. i. 7. vi. 14, 17. xxii. 17. 20 'L O! he comes with clouds descending,

Once for favour'd sinners slain !

Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of his train:

Hallelujah,

Jesus now shall ever reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him
Rob'd in dreadful majesty ;

Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierc'd and nail'd him to the tree,

Deeply wailing,

Shall the great Messiah see.

3 Every island, sea, and mountain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away:
All who hate him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day;
Come to judgment!

Come to judgment! come away!
4 Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear!
All his saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet him in the air!
Hallelujah!

See the day of God appear!