<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421566" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old-Testament Gospel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Israel in ancient days,<br>Not only had a view<br>Of Sinai in a blaze,<br>But learned the gospel too:<br>The types and figures were a glass<br>In which they saw the Saviour's face. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The paschal sacrifice,<br>And blood-besprinkled door,<br>Seen with enlightened eyes,<br>And once applied with pow'r;<br>Would teach the need of other blood,<br>To reconcile an angry God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lamb, the Dove, set forth<br>His perfect innocence,<br>Whose blood, of matchless worth,<br>Should be the soul's defence:<br>For he who can for sin atone,<br>Must have no failings of his own. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scape-goat on his head<br>The peoples' trespass bore,<br>And to the desert led,<br>Was to be seen no more:<br>In him, our Surety seemed to say,<br>Behold, I bear your sins away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dipped in his fellows' blood,<br>The living bird went free,<br>The type, well understood,<br>Expressed the sinner's plea;<br>Described a guilty soul enlarged,<br>And by a Saviour's death discharged. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jesus I love to trace<br>Throughout the sacred page;<br>The footsteps of thy grace,<br>The same in every age!<br>O grant that I may faithful be<br>To clearer light, vouchsafed to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421566" data-title="Old-Testament Gospel de John Newton" data-description="Israel in ancient days, Not only had a view Of Sinai in a blaze, But learned the gospel too: The types and figures were a glass In which they saw the Saviour's face. The paschal sacrifice, And blood-besprinkled door, Seen with enlightened eyes, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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