Tis slaughter in the outward sign

Verse 1
Tis slaughter in the outward sign;
In the reality
An holy sacrifice Divine
Of sinful souls we see,
When by the Spirit’s two-edg’d sword
The beast in man is slain,
That sinners thro’ the gospel-word
May reason’s life regain.

Verse 2
Sinners by the commandment kill’d,
And sav’d by Jesus grace,
Experience in themselves reveal’d
The vital holiness:
With Peter thus we kill and eat,
The heavenly charge fulfil,
Our soul’s repast, our pleasant meat
To do our Father’s will.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Arise, Peter, slay and eat.’—[Acts 11,] v. 7.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 341-42.
Publishing: Public Domain