Hymn 2:127. 
Circumcision and baptism. 
(Written only for those
who practise infant baptism.)

1 Thus did the sons of Abrah’m pass
Under the bloody seal of grace;
The young disciples bore the yoke,
Till Christ the painful bondage broke.

2 By milder ways doth Jesus prove
His Father’s covenant, and his love;
He seals to saints his glorious grace,
And not forbids their infant race.

3 Their seed is sprinkled with his blood,
Their children set apart for God,
His Spirit on their offspring shed,
Like water pour’d upon the head.

4 Let every saint with cheerful voice
In this large covenant rejoice;
Young children in their early days
Shall give the God of Abrah’m praise.

Hymn 2:128. 
Corrupt nature from Adam.

1 Bless’d with the joy of innocence
Adam, our father, stood,
Till he debas’d his soul to sense,
And ate th’ unlawful food.

2 Now we are born a sensual race,
To sinful joys inclin’d;
Reason has lost its native place,
And flesh enslaves the mind.

3 While flesh and sense and passion reigns,
Sin is the sweetest good: 
We fancy music in our chains,
And so forget the load.

4 Great God, renew our ruin’d frame,
Our broken powers restore,
Inspire us with a heavenly flame,
And flesh shall reign no more.

5 Eternal Spirit, write thy law
Upon our inward parts,
And let the second Adam draw
His image on our hearts.

Hymn 2:129. 
We walk by faith, not by sight.

1 ’Tis by the faith of joys to come
We walk thro’ deserts dark as night;
Till we arrive at heaven our home,
Faith is our guide, and faith our light.

2 The want of sight she well supplies,
She makes the pearly gates appear;
Far into distant worlds she pries,
And brings eternal glories near.

3 Cheerful we tread the desert thro’,
While faith inspires a heavenly ray,
Tho’ lions roar, and tempests blow,
And rocks and dangers fill the way.

4 So Abrah’m, by divine command,
Left his own house to walk with God;
His faith beheld the promis’d land,
And fir’d his zeal along the road.

Hymn 2:130. 
The new creation.

1 Attend while God’s exalted Son
Doth his own glories shew;
“Behold I sit upon my throne
Creating all things new.

2 “Nature and sin are pass’d away,
And the old Adam dies;
“My hands a new foundation lay,
“See the new world arise.

3 “I’ll be a sun of righteousness
“To the new-heavens I make;
“None but the new-born heirs of grace
“My glories shall partake.”

4 Mighty Redeemer, set me free
From my old state of sin;
O make my soul alive to thee,
Create new powers within.

5 Renew mine eyes, and form mine ears,
And mould my heart afresh;
Give me new passions, joys and fears,
And turn the stone to flesh.