Sinners, behold the sacred flame
Ascending from the slaughter’d Lamb,
The Lamb of God for Israel given,
Who offers up himself to heaven;
Mixt with the smoak his prayers arise,
And God accepts the sacrifice.
Sinners, behold the sacred flame
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Samuel offered a lamb, and cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.”—[I. Sam.] vii. 9. 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 155.
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