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Text:Not All the Blood of Beasts
Author:Isaac Watts, 1674-1748
Tune:SOUTHWELL
Composer:William Daman

99. 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 its hand
On that dear head divine
As penitently here I stand,
Confessing guilt is mine.

4 My soul looks back to see
The burden you did bear
When hanging on the cursed tree;
I know my 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, 1674-1748 (alt.)
Meter: SM
Language: English
Publication Date: 1982
Topic: Lent
Tune Information
Name: SOUTHWELL
Composer: William Daman
Meter: SM
Key: e minor
Source: The Psalmes of David, 1579



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