HYMN 12 Christ is the substance of the Levitical priesthood.

Christ is the substance of the Levitical priesthood.

The true Messiah now appears,

The types are all withdrawn;

So fly the shadows and the stars

Before the rising dawn.

No smoking sweets, nor bleeding lambs,

Nor kid nor bullock slain;

Incense and spice of costly names

Would all be burnt in vain.

Aaron must lay his robes away,

His mitre and his vest,

When God himself comes down to be

The offering and the priest.

He took our mortal flesh, to show

The wonders of his love;

For us he paid his life below,

And prays for us above.

"Father," he cries, "forgive their sins,

For I myself have died;"

And then he shows his opened veins,

And pleads his wounded side.