Baptism a Burial

LOrd, are we dead? dead unto sin?
Then buried let us be;
Let sin be cover'd, the old Man
Be slain, O Lord, by thee.

We have Baptized been, O Lord,
As such who were all dead,
To shew that thou didst lye i'th Grave,
We all were buried

Under the water, whereby we
Do in a figure see,
That as we shew'd how we are dead,
So raised are with thee.

None buried are till dead they be,
Those who baptized are
Ought to be dead to ev'ry sin,
To self, and all things here.

Those who are buried, covered are
All over in the Earth;
In Baptism the self-same thing
Must plain be holden forth:

Or else it answers not the end
Of Christ, who did ordain
That glorious Rite, if not so done,
They do the same prophane.