Tis finish’d! the Messiah dies

Verse 1
Tis finish’d! the Messias dies,
Cut off for Sins, but not His own!
Accomplish’d is the Sacrifice,
The great Redeeming Work is done.

Verse 2
’Tis finish’d! All the Debt is paid,
Justice Divine is satisfied,
The grand and full Atonement’s made,
GOD for a Guilty World hath died.

Verse 3
The Veil is rent, the Way is shewn,
The living Way to Heaven is seen,
The Middle-Wall is broken down,
And All Mankind may enter in.

Verse 4
The Types and Figures are fulfil’d;
Exacted is the Legal Pain;
The pretious Promises are seal’d;
The Spotless Lamb of GOD is slain.

Verse 5
Finish’d the First Transgression is,
And purg’d the Guilt of Actual Sin,
And Everlasting Righteousness
Is now to all the World brought in.

Verse 6
The Reign of Sin and Death is o’re,
And All may live from Sin set free;
Satan hath lost his Mortal Power,
’Tis swallow’d up in Victory.

Verse 7
’Tis finish’d! all my Grief and Pain,
I want no Sacrifice beside;
For me, for me, the Lamb was slain;
’Tis finish’d! I am Justified.

Verse 8
Sav’d from the Legal Curse I am,
My Saviour hangs on yonder Tree;
See there the dear expiring Lamb!
Tis finish’d! He expires for me.

Verse 9
Accepted in the Well-belov’d,
And cloath’d in Righteousness Divine
I see the Bar to Heaven remov’d,
And all thy Merits, Lord, are Mine.

Verse 10
Death, Hell, and Sin are now subdued,
All Grace is now to Sinners given,
And lo! I plead th’ Atoning Blood,
And in Thy Right demand Thy Heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘It is Finished!’—[John 19:30].” This hymn appears in the ca. 1743 manuscript “MS Thirty.” 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 1977/424, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Portions were published in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762), page 234, and in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 99. The entire hymn was published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 277-79.
Publishing: Public Domain