On Baptism

Planted together as we read

Author: Anna Beeman
Published in 1 hymnal

Representative Text

1 Planted together as we read,
In likeness of his death,
I think we must be all agreed,
That sprink'ling's something less.

2 Primitive practice also shows,
They to the water came,
Philip doth with the Eunuch go,
Down in and up again.

3 We do not find a bason sent,
To bring the water near;
No, Christ our lord to Jordan went,
And was baptised there.

4 And Noah's Ark doth also show,
As Peter views the thing,
The way and mode that we should go,
To be baptised in.

5 Both men and women were baptis;d,
By scripture we are shown;
But not a child of infant size,
No, not so much as one.

6 And faith is also called for,
Before this act is done,
Read Philip and the Eunuch when,
They to the water come.

Source: Hymns on Various Subjects #9

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Author: Anna Beeman

Anna Keeney Beeman born in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut. She was the among the first female Baptist hymn writers in America. She believed strongly in baptism by immersion. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Children and Grandchildren of Thomas Beeman" (on RootsWeb, accessed 11/8/2020) and I Will Sing the Wondrous Story: a history of Baptist hymnody in North America by David W. Music and Paul Akers Richardson (Mercer University Press, Macon, GA: 2008) Go to person page >

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