Christ, our Passover, is slain,
To set his people free,
Free from sin’s Egyptian’s chain,
And Pharaoh’s tyranny:
Lord, that we may now depart,
And truly serve our pard’ning God,
Sprinkle every house and heart
With thine atoning blood.
Christ, our Passover, is slain
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts, and on the upper door-posts of the houses.”—[Exod.] xii. 7. 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 42.
Publishing: Public Domain