The Altar or, Meditations in Verse On The Great Christian Sacrifice By The Author of "The Cathedral," [i.e. Isaac Williams] |
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“By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many.”
This from our penal stripes is the reprieve,
In this oblation they are sanctified;
The Father reconciled henceforth shall hide
Within His tabernacle those that grieve:
And the almighty Comforter shall cleave
To those in suffering unto Him allied:
That they beneath this shadow may abide,
He scourgeth every son He doth receive.
In this bad world with leprous taint o'ercast,
Which to its own corruption fades so fast,
Nothing in the All-seeing Eyes is good,
Save as the mirror of the Eternal Son,
When therein is beheld what He hath won,
In images of His atoning Blood.
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