OLD TESTAMENT GOSPEL

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 26, 1861

OLD TESTAMENT GOSPEL.

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 a Saviour's face.

The paschal sacrifice, And blood be-sprinkled door, Seen with enlightened eyes, And one applied with power, Would teach the need of other blood To reconcile us unto God.

The lamb, the dove, set forth, His perfect innocence, Whose blood, of matchless worth, Should be the soul's defense; For he who can for sin atone, Must have no failings of his own.

Dipp'd in his fellow's blood, The living bird went free. The types 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.

[Mine Explored, pp. 349, 350.