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NEW-BORN souls who taste salvation
   Through the Lord’s redeeming blood
Hear His voice of revelation,
    ‘Tread the path the Saviour trod.’
 
2  Jesus says, ‘Let each believer
    Be baptised into My name,’
As He went through Jordan’s river,
    There immersed beneath the stream.
 
3  Follow Him, our only Saviour,
    In His Word alone confide;
In the whole of our behaviour
    Own Him as our sovereign Guide.
 
4  Plainly, here, His footsteps tracing,
    Follow Him without delay,
Gladly His commands embracing,
    As our Saviour led the way.
 
5  View the act with understanding,
    ’Tis a grave before us lies,
Buried there at His commanding,
    Then in newness to arise.
 
6  Symbol of a life now over,
    Sin and darkness left behind;
Figure of new life and power,
    And new birth in heart and mind.
 
John Fawcett, 1739-1817‡