LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
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| Dates: | 1707
| Bible Refs: | Mt 28:19-20; Ac 2:38
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1
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MUSIC
| Name: | LOUVAN
| | Meter: | 8 8 8 8 (L.M.)
| Writer(s): | Virgil Corydon Taylor
| Dates: | 1850
|  | | 1. ’Twas the commission of our Lord,
“Go teach the nations, and baptize:”
The nations have received 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 darkened lands.
[originally …the distant British lands]
3. “Repent, and be baptized,” He saith,
“For the remission of your sins:”
And thus our sense assists our faith,
And shows us what His Gospel means.
4. Our souls He washes in His blood,
As water makes the body clean;
And the good Spirit from our God
Descends like purifying rain.
5. Thus we engage ourselves to Thee,
And seal our cov’nant with the Lord;
O may the great eternal Three
In Heav’n our solemn vows record!
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