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John Newton - Old-Testament Gospel
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Israel in ancient days,
Not only had a view
Of Sinai in a blaze,
But learned the gospel too:
The types and figures were a glass
In which they saw the Saviour`s face. 

The paschal sacrifice,
And blood-besprinkled door,
Seen with enlightened eyes,
And once applied with pow`r;
Would teach the need of other blood,
To reconcile an angry God. 

The Lamb, the Dove, set forth
His perfect innocence,
Whose blood, of matchless worth,
Should be the soul`s defence:
For he who can for sin atone,
Must have no failings of his own. 

The scape-goat on his head
The peoples` trespass bore,
And to the desert led,
Was to be seen no more:
In him, our Surety seemed to say,
Behold, I bear your sins away. 

Dipped in his fellows` blood,
The living bird went free,
The type, well understood,
Expressed the sinner`s plea;
Described a guilty soul enlarged,
And by a Saviour`s death discharged. 

Jesus I love to trace
Throughout the sacred page;
The footsteps of thy grace,
The same in every age!
O grant that I may faithful be
To clearer light, vouchsafed to me.
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