Home of God's people !-there they meet
Upon his holy day:

And there their mouldering bodies rest,
When life has passed away.

210. The Church is the Pillar of the Truth.

Ir thy brother shall trespass against thee, Go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone.

If he will not hear thee,

Then take with thee one or two more :
And if he shall neglect to hear them,
Tell it unto the Church:

But if he neglect to hear the Church,
Let him be unto thee as a heathen man and
a publican.-Matt. xviii. 15-17.

211.

Church and Queen.

(C. M.)

OUR God is good; why should we then
So much neglect his praise?

His help doth pass all help of men,
Whose power, whose love decays.

He sends his Word,-the Church's light,
His Gospel feeds his flock;

His people take their cheerful flight
To Him, their living Rock!

On Him they stay, on Him they stand,
He freely grants his aid;

He scatters with his truth each band
That hath his Church dismayed.

Breathe out thy Word, O God, our Guide!
Let it be published so
That it may evermore abide,

And make thy Church still grow.

Let truth prevail, let faith abound,
Let all amend their ways:
Our Queen preserve, her foes confound,
Send peace in all her days.

THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM.

BAPTISM doth represent unto us our profession, which is to follow the example of our Saviour Christ, and to be made like unto Him; that as He died and rose again for us, so should we who are baptized, die from sin and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.

212. Received into Christ's Flock. (7's.)

PRAISE the Lord of heaven and earth,
Giver of the second birth;
He into his Ark receives
Whoso upon Him believes.

Alleluia !

Praise the Lord who for us died,
Shedding from his precious side
Streams which wash the guilt of sin,
Fountains which can cleanse within.
Alleluia!

Praise Him for his blest command
To baptize in every land;

And baptizing all, to teach

Truths which every heart may reach.

Alleluia!

Worship Him with thankful mind,
Keep that vow which doth you bind;
Henceforth, unto evil dead,

Live anew with Christ your Head.

Alleluia !

213. The Lord's Command to Baptize.

JESUS came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Teaching them to observe all things
Whatsoever I have commanded you:
And, lo, I am with you alway,
Even unto the end of the world.

Amen. Matt. xxviii. 18.

214.

Christ's Faithful Soldiers. HEAVENLY Father! by thy grace We were born of Christian race; Early given unto Thee,

That thy children we might be.

We will praise the Saviour's name,
Who for our salvation came:
Once a child,-for us He died,
That we might be justified.

Now baptized unto his death,
We are his while we have breath;
Dead to sin, to God alive,

'Gainst all evil let us strive.

For with Him we have our part,
That new life should fill our heart;
Yea, with Him we hope to rise
To his kingdom in the skies.

215. The Ark of Christ's Church.

(7's.)

THE long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah,

While the ark was a preparing,

Wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

The like figure whereunto

Even baptism doth also now save us, (Not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,

But the answer of a good conscience towards God,)

By the resurrection of Jesus Christ :

Who is gone into heaven.-1 Peter iii. 20.

216. Grafted into Christ's Church. (C.M.)

O PRAISE the Lord, whose mercy great Hath placed us in his Ark;

Hath open'd unto us his gate,

And mark'd us with his mark.

Glory to God, whose goodness free,
To others grants the same;
Yea, hath commanded all should be
Baptized unto his name.

O Saviour! in our hearts awake
The mem'ry of our vow;
That we should every sin forsake,
And henceforth walk as Thou.

For we are of this world no more,
But dead to sin with Thee;
And henceforth, until life is o'er,
Alive to God should be.