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Not All the Blood of Beasts - Watts

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  • The thread shares the full text of Isaac Watts's hymn "Not All the Blood of Beasts."
  • The original post says the hymn captures the heart of revival and affirms that Christ's sacrifice on Calvary was accepted on the poster's behalf.
  • The hymn contrasts the blood of animals on Jewish altars, which could not give the guilty conscience peace, with Christ, the heavenly Lamb who takes sins away.
  • Its later stanzas describe the penitent believer laying faith on Christ's head, looking back at the burden he bore on the cursed tree, and rejoicing that the curse is removed.
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InTheLight

This hymn really seems to capture the heart of revival. "My faith would lay her hand..."
and that sacrifice on Calvary was accepted for me.
Not All The Blood Of Beasts

Not all the blood of beasts
On Jewish altars slain
Could give the guilty conscience peace
Or wash away the stain.
2. But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,
Takes all our sins away;
A sacrifice of nobler name
And richer blood than they.
3. My faith would lay her hand
On that dear head of Thine
While like a penitent I stand
And there confess my sin.
4. My soul looks back to see
The burden Thou didst bear
When hanging on the cursed tree
And knows her guilt was there.
5. Believing, we rejoice
To see the curse remove;
We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice
And sing His bleeding love.

-Isaac Watts

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