To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, By whom redemption b'ess'd the earth,

SELECT HYMNS ON BAPTISM.

HYMN 313. S. M. Salisbury Col.

Watchman, Dover.

The promise to believers and their

children.

Through every age, eternal God, Their pleasing home, their safe abode. 2 In thee our fathers sought their rest; In thee our fathers still are blest;

LORD, what our ears have heard, And while the tomb confines their dust,

Our eyes delighted trace;
Thy love in long succession shown
To Sion's chosen race.

2 Our children thou dost claim,
And mark them out for thine;
Ten thousand blessings to thy name,
For goodness so divine.

3 Thee, let the fathers own,

And thee, the sons adore ;'
Join'd to the Lord in solemn vows,
To be forgot no more.
4 Thy covenant may they keep,
And bless the happy bands,
Which closer still engage their hearts,
To honour thy commands.
5 How great thy mercies, Lord!
How plenteous is thy grace!
Which, in the promise of thy love,
Includes our rising race.

6 Our offspring, still thy care,

To latest times thy blessings share,

Shall own their fathers' God,

And sound thy praise abroad.

In thee their souls abide, and trust.
3' Lo, we are risen, a feeble race,
A while to fill our fathers' place;
Our helpless state with pity view,
And let us share their refuge too.
4 Through all the thorny paths we trace
In this uncertain wilderness,

When friends desert, and foes invade,
Revive our heart, and guard our head.
5 So when this pilgrimage is o'er,
And we must dwell in flesh no more,
To thee our sep'rate souls shall come,
And find in thee a surer home.
6 To thee our infant race we leave:
Them may their fathers' God receive;
That voices yet unform'd may raise
Succeeding hymns of humble praise.

HYMN 316. C.M.
St. Asaphs, Hymn 2nd.

Infant baptism.

Besus on earth displays!
EHOLD what condescending love

To babes and sucklings he extends
The riches of his grace.

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2The parents' hearts,with transport fill'd
Give up their babes to him:
He clasps them in his tender arms,
Though born in guilt and sin.
3 See how the Saviour looks around,
With smiles upon his face,
And says his kingdom is of such,
By free and sovereign grace.
4" Forbid them not," is his command;
Then why should we resist?
O let your babes be now baptiz'd;
Heaven will of such consist.

5 With flowing tears and thankful hearts
We bring them here to thee;
Receive them, Lord, into thine arms-
Thine may they ever be.

HYMN 317. 75. Cowper.

Condolence, Cookham.

Prayer for children.

GRACIOUS Lord, our childr
By thy mercy we are

1

But shall these, alas! remain
Subjects still of Satan's reign?
Israel's young sons, when of old,
Pharaoh threaten'd to withhold;
Then thy messenger said, “No:
"Let the children also go."
3 When the angel of the Lord,
Drawing forth his dreadful sword,
Slew with an avenging hand,
All the first-born of the land;
4 Then thy people's door he pass'd,
Where the bloody sign was plac'd;
Hear us now upon our knees,
Plead the blood of Christ for these.
5 Lord, we tremble, for we know
How the fierce, malicious foe,
Wheeling round his watchful flight,
Keeps them ever in his sight.
6 Spread thy pinions, King of kings!
Hide them safe beneath thy wings:
Lest the rav'nous birds of prey
Stoop and bear the brood away.

HYMN 318. C. M. Peacock.

Abridge, Barby.

Infant baptism.

JES

A mortal man asham'd of thee! Asham'd of thee, whom angels praise, Whose glories shine through endless days!

BEHOLD what condescending love 2 Asham'd of Jesus! sooner far

Jesus on earth displays!
To babes and sucklings he extends
The riches of his grace!

2 He still the ancient promise keeps,
To our forefathers given;
Young children in his arms he takes,
And calls them heirs of heaven.
3 "Permit them to approach," he cries,
"Nor scorn their humble name;
"For 'twas to bless such souls as these,
"The Lord of angels came."
4 We bring them, Lord, with thankful
And yield them up to thee; [hearts.
Joyful that we ourselves are thine,
Thine may our offspring be.
5 Kindly receive this tender branch,
And form his soul for God;
Baptize him with thy Spirit, Lord,
And wash him in thy blood.
6 [Thus to the parents and their seed
Let thy salvation come;
And numerous households meet at
In one eternal home.']. [last,

HYMN 319. S. M. Salisbury Coll.

Hopkins, Froome, Thacher.

promise is unto you and to your children, &c. OW great thy mercies, Lord, How plenteous is thy grace;

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Let evening blush to own a star;
He sheds the beams of light divine
O'er this benighted soul of mine.
3 Asham'd of Jesus! just as soon
Let midnight be asham'd of noon:
Tis midnight with my soul till he,
Bright Morning-Star! bid darkness flee.
4 Asham'd of Jesus! that dear friend,
On whom my hopes of heaven depend!
No; when I blush, be this my shame,
That I no more revere his name.
5 Aham'd of Jesus! yes, I may,
When I've no guilt to wash away,
No tear to wipe, no good to crave,
No fears to quell, no soul to save.
6 Till then-nor is my boasting vain—
Till then I boast a Saviour slain!
And O may this my glory be,
That Christ is not asham'd of me!
7 His institutions would I prize,
Take, up my cross, the shame despise ;
Dare to defend his noble cause,
And yield obedience to his laws.

HYMN 321.

P. M.

Devonshire.
Praise to the Saviour.
E servants of God,
Your Master proclaim,'

1 YE

Aithlone.

Sufficiency of Christ.

1 JESUS who died, a world to save,
Revives and rises from the grave,
By his almighty power;
From sin, and death, and hell set free,
He captive leads captivity,

And lives to die no more.

2 Plenteous he is in truth and grace, He offers pardon to our race,

He bids us turn and live;
His saving grace for all is free,
Transgression, sin, iniquity,,
He freely doth forgive.

S Hail, great Immanuel, balmy name,
Thy praise the ransom'd will pro-
Thee, we physician call; [claim ;
We own no other cure but thine,
Thou, the deliverer divine,
Our health, our life, our all.

HYMN 323.

Amsterdam.

Heaven.

P.M.

ISE, soul, and stretch thy

Rise from transitory things,

Tow'rds heaven thy native place.
Sun, and moon, and stars decay,
Time shall soon this earth remove;
Rise, my soul, and haste away,
To seats prepar❜d above.

2 Rivers to the ocean run,

Nor stay in all their course;
Fire, ascending, seeks the sun,
Both speed them to their source.
So a soul, that's born of God,
Pants to view his glorious face,
Upward tends to his abode,
To rest in his embrace.

3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn,
Press onward to the prize;
Soon our Saviour will return,
Triumphant in the skies.
Yet a season, and you know
Happy entrance will be given,
All our sorrows left below,
And earth exchang'd for heaven,

What is this absorbs me quite,
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirit, draws my breath--
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes, it disappears,
Heaven opens on my eyes, my ears
With sounds seraphic ring;
Lend, lend your wings; I mount, I fly;
O grave, where is thy victory!
O death, where is thy sting!

HYMN 325. P. M.
Dismission.

LORD, dismiss us with thy blessing,
Fill our hearts with joy and peace;
Let us all, thy love possessing,
Triumph in redeeming grace.
2 Thanks we give, and adoration,
For thy gospel's joyful sound;
May the fruit of thy salvation
In our hearts and lives be found.
3 Jesus, thou art all compassion,
Pure, unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation,

Rrby better portion trace, wings, Enter ev'ry humble heart.

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