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Text:Not All the Blood of Beasts
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:FESTAL SONG
Composer:William Howard Walter

354. Not All the Blood of Beasts

1 Not all the blood of beasts
on Jewish altars slain,
could give the guilty conscience peace,
or wash away the stain.

2 But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb,
takes all our sins away,
a sacrifice of nobler name
and richer blood than they.

3 My faith would lay her hand
on that dear head of thine,
while like a penitent I stand,
and there confess my sin.

4 My soul looks back to see
the burdens thou didst bear,
when hanging on the cursed tree,
and knows her guilt was there.

5 Believing, we rejoice
to see the curse remove;
we bless the Lamb with cheerful voice,
and sing his bleeding love.

Text Information
First Line: Not all the blood of beasts
Title: Not All the Blood of Beasts
Author: Isaac Watts (1709, alt. 1961)
Meter: S.M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 2018
Scripture: ; ; ;
Topic: Christ: As Lamb of God; Christ: Passion and Atoning Death of; Confession and repentance (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: FESTAL SONG
Composer: William Howard Walter (1894)
Meter: S.M.
Key: A Major



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