Cloath’d with the skins of victims slain,
Our parents turn’d on Christ their eyes,
The Lamb whom God did then ordain,
The grand vicarious sacrifice:
By faith they knew the blood was shed,
For them, and all their race t’ atone,
And trusting in his merits, made
His perfect righteousness their own.
Clothed with the skins of victims slain
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Unto Adam, and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and cloathed them.”—[Gen.] iii. 21. 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 10.
Publishing: Public Domain