[
  {
    "title": "Hymn 52",
    "author": "Isaac Watts",
    "lines": [
      "Baptism.",
      "",
      "Matt. 28:19; Acts 2:38.",
      "",
      "'Twas the commission of our Lord,",
      "\"Go teach the nations, and baptize:\"",
      "The nations have received the word",
      "Since he ascended to the skies.",
      "",
      "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 British lands.",
      "",
      "\"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.",
      "",
      "Our souls he washes in his blood,",
      "As water makes the body clean;",
      "And the good Spirit from our God",
      "Descends like purifying rain.",
      "",
      "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!"
    ],
    "linecount": "22"
  }
]