Devotional for Holy Saturday

O Thou whose off’ring on the tree

The legal off’rings all foreshow’d,

Borrow’d their whole effect from thee,

And drew their virtue from thy blood:

 

The blood of goats and bullocks slain,

Could never for one sin atone;

To purge the guilty off’rer’s stain,

Thine was the work, and thine alone.

 

Those feeble types and shadows old,

Are all in thee, the Truth fulfill’d:

We in thy sacrifice behold

The substance of those rites reveal’d.

 

Thy meritorious suff’rings past,

We see by faith to us brought back;

And, on thy grand oblation cast,

It saving benefits partake.

Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).