Wesley Corpus

Holy, innocent, and pure Thou wilt thy brethren make, From an evil world secure, And to thy bosom take, Us before thy Father's face Acknowledge for thy flesh and bone, Higher than the angels place, And nearest to thy throne. "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." Heb. ix. 12. Not by the blood of bullocks, Who purchas'd our salvation, But by his own Before the throne He makes his supplication: Page 360 The friend of pardon'd sinners, Of each sincere believer, In Christ we rest Our great high-priest, Our Advocate forever. He enter'd once the holiest, And therefore I shall enter, Who Jesus own, On him alone For full salvation venture: The earnest and the witness, And seal of sins forgiven He bought for me, With purity, And all the joys of heaven. "If the blood of bulls, and of goats ... sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" Heb. ix. 13, 14. The blood of goats and bullocks slain Had power to purge the legal stain, And outward holiness restore, Sprinkled from his impurity, The sinner stood absolv'd and free, And separate from the clean no more. And shall not that atoning blood Of Christ, the everlasting God, A purer holiness impart, Make the polluted conscience clean, And purge our inmost soul from sin, And sanctify our sprinkled heart? Himself a spotless sacrifice To his great Father in the skies He offer'd up for all mankind, Thro' the eternal Spirit's power, That cleans'd from sin we never more May soil with guilt our spotless mind: Page 361 That we may serve the living God (When Satan's works are all destroy'd) The merits of our Lord demand; And we his merits shall receive, The life of pure obedience live,93 And bright in all his image stand. "Christ is entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." Heb. ix. 24.