Arise and be baptized

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Arise and be baptized

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth
Tune: MILDRED (Johnson)
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 Arise and be baptized,
And wash thy sins away;
Thy league with God be solemnized,
Thy faith confessed to-day.

2 No more thine own, but Christ's;
With all the saints of old,
Apostles, seers, evangelists,
And martyr throngs enrolled.

3 O bright the conqueror's crown,
The song of triumph sweet,
When faith casts every trophy down
At our Redeemer's feet.

Amen.

Source: The Hymnal and Order of Service #229

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Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, D.D., son of Edward Bickersteth, Sr. born at Islington, Jan. 1825, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. with honours, 1847; M.A., 1850). On taking Holy Orders in 1848, he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. His preferment to the Rectory of Hinton-Martell, in 1852, was followed by that of the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead, 1855. In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester, and the same year Bishop of Exeter. Bishop Bickersteth's works, chiefly poetical, are:— (l) Poems, 1849; (2) Water from the Well-spring, 1852; (3) The Rock of Ages, 1858 ; (4) Commentary on the New Testament, 1864; (5) Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever, 1867; (6) The Spirit of Life, 1868;… Go to person page >

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