The True Messiah Now Appears

Verse 1

The true Messiah now appears,
The types are all withdrawn;
So fly the shadows and the stars
Before the rising dawn.

Verse 2

No smoking sweets, nor bleeding lambs,
Nor kid, nor bullock slain,
Incense and spice of costly names
Would all be burnt in vain.

Verse 3

Aaron must lay his robes away;
His mitre and his vest,
When God himself comes down to be
The offering and the priest.

Verse 4

He took our mortal flesh to show
The wonders of his love;
For us he paid his life below,
And prays for us above.

Verse 5

“Father, (he cries) forgive their sins,
“For I myself have dy’d,”
And then he shews his open’d veins,
And pleads his wounded side.