Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Not all the blood of beasts
Topic: Christ/Atonement
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: SM
Tune: Boylston
Hymn Number: 372
Page Number: 124, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNOT all the blood of beasts,
On Jewish altars slain,
Could give the guilty conscience peace,
Or wash away its stain.
But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,
Bears all our sins away;
A sacrifice of nobler name
And richer blood than they.
My faith would lay her hand
On that dear head of thine,
While, like a penitent, I stand,
And there confess my sin.
Believing, we rejoice
To see the curse remove;
We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,
And sing his dying love.