HYMNS.

No; and if this, we then maintain Either the rite no baptism real; Or, that there must be baptisms twain, While these plain words but one reveal.

Nor this alone---' twere quickly shown, ( To contest long were we inclin'd) That when th' external rite was known, Typic and transient' twas design'd.

Yet, in the church's infant state,

Fit that to lead, which was to stay; As John himself, meetly made strait The way of Him, that was" the way."

But this we leave, and haste to spring

Contention's thorny bound beyond, And love to wake that sweeter string To which all quicken'd hearts respond.

To sing of Him, who trains his own In charity's celestial school; Whose" blood of sprinkling" forms alone The one baptism spiritual!

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