“Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness: but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Cor. 5: 7, 8.)
THOU paschal Lamb, appointed
By God the Father’s love;
That we, through His anointed,
Might all His mercy prove: ―
Through Thee we have salvation,
Life, pardon, peace, obtain;
And praise with adoration,
The Lamb for sinners slain.
Freedom from condemnation,
Could only come by Thee;
Through Thy humiliation,
And suff’rings on the tree.
Thy weight of sorrow bearing,
From Satan, man, and God;
And love to us declaring,
Through Thy atoning blood.
We praise Thee, Holy Saviour!
That Thou didst suffer thus:
And in Thy loving favor,
Endure the curse for us.
Through everlasting ages,
All glory be to Thee;
While this, each heart engages
Thy love on Calvary.
We, Thy command obeying,
Now meet around the sign;
The emblems here surveying,
Of Living Bread and Wine.
And while each living member,
Rejoices in Thy name;
We also would remember,
The sorrows of the Lamb.
We wait for Thine appearing,
To chase the night away;
The welcome summons hearing,
To call us hence away.
Thy saints will then in glory,
Redeeming love proclaim;
While they rejoice before Thee,
That “Worthy is the Lamb.”