The blood of goats and bullocks slain

Verse 1
The blood of goats and bullocks slain
Could not efface your guilty stain;
By moral rectitude,
By works, and partial righteousness
Ye never could the wrath appease,
Or buy the grace of God.

Verse 2
But if on Christ ye dare rely,
Your sins and crimes of deepest die
Are purg’d, and done away,
And blest with absolution here,
Ye shall with confidence appear,
And triumph in that day!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And by him all that believe, are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.’—[Acts 13,] v. 39.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 357.
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