This figurative custom
Doth to our faith discover
A world releas’d At that great feast
When Justice pass’d us over;
When Jesus to his Father
Became a pure Oblation,
That Lamb of God, Whose sprinkled blood
Ascertains our salvation.
This figurative custom
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner.’—[Mark 15,] v. 6.” 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 84.
Publishing: Public Domain