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BAPTISM.
2 They in these waters deeply laid,
Show him as suffering in their stead,
And rising from this watery grave,
They show his wondrous power to save.
3 Thus we proclaim our faith in him,
As rising from the yielding stream ;
And show by his deserted grave,
The power of Christ from death to save.
4 O may we hence proclaim abroad
The honor of our Saviour God,
And wear his livery and renown,
And thus our high profession crown.
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Baptism urged from the command of Christ.
1 FAESPISE me not, my carnal friends,
Lest you despise my Lord:
He bids me in the water go,
And I’ll obey his word.
2 Christ is the bishop of my soul;
He meekly did appear
In Jordan’s stream, and was baptized
By John his harbinger.
3 And shall I now refuse to do
What lie’s enjoined on me ?
No—I’ll through grace the cross forego,
And his disciple be.
4 The watery grave I have in view,
It bids me hasten in,
To all the world I bid adieu,
To rise with Christ my King.
5 In thee, my Lord, I put my trust,
With all I have or own—
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