Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship ‎#89b

89b. Backward with humble shame we look

1. Backward with humble shame we look
On our original;
How is our nature dashed and broke
In our first father’s fall!

2. To all that’s good-averse and blind,
But prone to all that’s ill,
What dreadful darkness veils the mind!
How obstinate the will!

3. Yet, mighty God, your wondrous love
Can make our nature clean,
While Christ and grace prevail above
The tempter, death, and sin.

4. The second Adam shall restore
The ruins of the first;
Hosanna to that sovereign pow’r
That new-creates our dust.

Text Information

• First Line: Backward with humble shame we look
• Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
• Meter: 8.6.8.6
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2024
• Scripture:
  Romans 5:19
• Topic: Lent
• Source: Hymns & Spiritual Songs, 1707, alt.

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