Buried beneath the yielding wave

Buried beneath the yielding wave. Benjamin Beddome* (1717-1795).   This was published in the Baptism section of Beddome’s Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (1817, 1818), compiled by Robert Hall twenty years after Beddome’s death. It was entitled ‘The Redeemer’s Example’. It had five stanzas:  Buried beneath the yielding wave,  The dear Redeemer lies; Faith views him in the watery grave,  And thence beholds him rise.  Thus it becomes his saints to-day,  Their ardent zeal t’express;And in the Lord’s appointed way,  Fulfil all righteousness. With joy we in his footsteps tread,  And would his cause maintain, Like him be numbered with the dead,  And with him rise and reign.  His presence oft...