Christ Is the Substance of the Levitical Priesthood

Verse 1

The true Messiah now appears, The types are all withdrawn; So fly the shadows and the stars Before the rising dawn.

Verse 2

No smoking sweets, nor bleeding lambs, Nor kid nor bullock slain; Incense and spice of costly names Would all be burnt in vain.

Verse 3

Aaron must lay his robes away, His mitre and his vest, When God himself comes down to be The offering and the priest.

Verse 4

He took our mortal flesh, to show The wonders of his love; For us he paid his life below, And prays for us above.

Verse 5

"Father," he cries, "forgive their sins, For I myself have died;" And then he shows his opened veins, And pleads his wounded side.