_Fourthly_—SINGING his high Praises, with the understanding, and with grace in the heart. This is an Ordinance kept up in all ages of the Church: _Is any merry_, _let him sing Psalms_.—So another is, _Speaking to yourselves in Psalms and Hymns_, _and spiritual Songs_; _singing with grace in the heart to the Lord Jesus_. This Ordinance is not a carnal one, nor is it to be despised: the Quakers, and some other characters I have met with, set it aside as a carnal Ordinance. O! what an awful insult upon the Saviour! who, with his disciples, _sung an Hymn_, _and then went out to the Mount of Olives_. What an insult to set aside this Ordinance as carnal, seeing the Holy Ghost by the Apostles Paul and James, has commanded it; and John heard the Songs of the redeemed, in the Church militant—and of Saints it is said, _Let the high Praises of God be in their mouths_. Singing is only speaking in a musical voice; and the subject-matter of it ought to be the precious Person of Immanuel; every Hymn ought to be of him and to him—this enlivens worship; God delights to hear it, and those characters that set it aside altogether, I am almost uncharitable enough to suppose they have nothing to sing about. But if we have obtained Mercy, Righteousness, Redemption, and Pardon, let us sing of them—_I will sing of Mercy & Judgement_—_I will sing of thy Righteousness all the day_. _They sung a new Song_, _saying_, _Worthy the Lamb that redeemed us_. _Fifthly_—BAPTISM is another Ordinance: this is evident from the commandment of our Lord to his Apostles: _Go teach all nations_; _baptizing them in the name of the Three divine Persons_. Some learned men that have written against this Ordinance, tell us it is the Baptism of the Holy Ghost; and that the Greek text reads, _into the name_—and suppose it does, this is no argument against Water Baptism—the Apostles were never commanded to baptize any one with the Holy Ghost, that was the immediate Work of the Spirit himself. Besides, there is a vast difference between baptizing into the _Name_ and into the _Nature_ of Christ; as much difference as between plunging the Body in Water and the Regeneration of the Soul; the one is an outward visible sign of the other, which is the Substance. That it is a command it is evident—_then he commanded them to be baptized_. God sent John to baptize, and Jesus sent his disciples. It is an act of religious Worship, and it is intended to represent the Sufferings, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of the Son of God. It is intended to lead the mind to the Blood of Jesus for its Pardon; and having this Pardon of Sin sealed home upon the conscience, this is the answer of a good conscience towards God; and this is the Work of Faith to apprehend and apply the Death of Jesus to the conscience, through the operation of the Holy Spirit.—I now come to the principal Ordinance I mean to give my thoughts on, and in which, I believe, all who love the Saviour agree—