By the legal goat foreshowed

By the legal goat foreshow’d
The heavenly Victim see,
Burthen’d with the people’s load,
A world’s iniquity!
God on Him our sins did lay:
And lo, into the desart driven
Jesus bears them far away;
And we are all forgiven!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.’—[Mark 1,] v. 12.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 447.
Publishing: Public Domain