2. Go into ev'ry nation, go, Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry, Glad tidings unto all we show ; Jerusalem, thy God is nigh. 3. Hark! in the wilderness a cry: A voice that loudly calls, Prepare ! Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh, And means to make his entrance there ! 4. The Lord your God shall quickly come: Sinners repent, the call obey: Ye desert souls, prepare Whate'er obstructs, obstructs in vain : The vale shall rise, the mountain fall, Crooked be straight, and rugged plain. 6. The glory of the Lord display'd Shall all mankind together view : And what his mouth in truth hath said, His own alınighty hand shall do. his way XI. ORDINANCES. 1. BAPTISM. 1.'T Hymn 378. L. M. Baptism. Matth. xxviii, 19. Acts ii. 38. 1. TWAS the commission of our Lord : “ Go teach the nations and baptize." The nations have receiv'd the word, Since He ascended to the skies. 2. He sits upon th' eternal hills, With grace and pardon in his hands, And sends his cov’nant with the seals, To bless the distant heathen lands. 3. “ Repent and be baptiz'd,” he saith, For the remission of your sins;' And shews us what his gospel means. 4. Our souls he washes in his blood, As water makes our bodies clean; Descends like purifying rain, And seal our cov'nant with the Lord; Hymn 379. c. x. And on the water brood : The water and the blood. To give his word a seal; Exceeds the figure still. And our request renew: The work we have to do. Hymn 380. s. M. 1. M ; Y Saviour's pierced side Pour'd out a double flood; And pardon'd by the blood. 2. Calid from above, I rise, And wash away my sin; Can make the foulest clean. 3. It runs divinely clear, A fountain deep and wide ; In my Redeemer's side. Hymn 381. L.M. 1. C , Honour the means ordain'd by thee! Make good our apostolic boast, And own thy glorious ministry. 2. Father, in these reveal thy Son; In these for whom we seek thy face. The hidden mystery make known, The inward pure baptizing grace. 3. Jesus, with us thou always art: Effectuate the sacred sign: The gift unspeakable impart, And bless the ordinance divine. 4. Eternal Spirit, descend from high, Baptizer of our spirits thou! The sacramental seal apply, And witness with the water now. 2. EUCHARISTIC. arose Hymn 382. L. M. The Lord's Supper instituted. 1. Cor. xi. 23,&c. 1.'TWAS on that dark, that doleful night , Against the Son of God's delight, And friends betray'd him to his foes. 2. Before the mournful scene began He took the bread, and bless'd, and brake; What love through all his actions ran! What wondrous words of grace he spakë. 3.“ This is my body broke for sin, “ Receive and eat the living food;" « 'Tis the new cov'nant in my blood.” 6.“ Do this (he cry'd) till time shall end, “ In mem'ry of your dying friend: Hymn 383. s. M. x. 16, 17. Hére pardon'd rebels sit, and hold Communion with their Lord. He bids us drink his blood : Of our eternal God.. Maintain our fainting breath, And int'rest in his death. Christ and his members one;- And He the first-born Son. 5. We are but sev'ral parts Of the same broken bread; But Jesus is the head. 6. Let all our pow'rs be join'd, His glorious name to raise : And ev'ry voice be praise, IN for Hymn 384. P. u. 1. N that sad memorable night, When Jesus was for us betray'd; He left his death-recording rite : He took and bless'd and brake the bread, And gave his own their last bequest, And thus his love's intent express'd. 2.“ Take, eat, this is my body giv'n, “ To purchase life and peace youz. " Pardon and holiness and heav'n : “ Do this, my dying love to shew, 6 Accept your precious legacy, “ And thus my friends remember me." 3. He took into his hands-the-cup, . To crown the sacramental feast And full of kind concern look'd up, And gave to them what he had blest;; “ And drink ye all of this,” he said, “ In solemn mem'ry of the dead.” 4." This is my blood, which seals the new. « Eternal cov’nant of my grace;. My blood so freely shed for you, “For you, and all the sinful race: My blood, that speaks your sins forgiv'ng * And justifies your claim to heav'n. Hymn 385. P. m. fed, And eat immortal bread? H |