Aaron lifts up his praying hands

Verse 1
Aaron lifts up his praying hands,
To shew from whence the blessing flow’d,
He craves the grace which Christ commands,
Our great high-priest, who sent of God
Blesses this dear-lov’d world of his
With glorious, everlasting bliss.

Verse 2
Aaron a transient blessing gave,
A mortal, typical high-priest;
Jesus for ever lives, to save
The people he at parting blest;
Aaron came down, the blessing given,
His antitype went up to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Aaron lift[ed] up his hand towards the people and blessed them, and came down.”—[Lev.] ix. 22. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 61.
Publishing: Public Domain