Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books ‎#I.CXXIV

I.CXXIV. The first and second Adam

1 Deep in the dust before thy throne
Our guilt and our disgrace we own:
Great God! we own th' unhappy name,
Whence sprang our nature and our shame;

2 Adam the sinner: At his fall,
Death, like a conqu'ror seiz'd us all;
A thousand new-born babes are dead,
By fatal union to their head.

3 But whilst our spirits, fill'd with awe,
Behold the terrors of thy law,
We sing the honours of thy grace,
That sent to save our ruin'd race.

4 We sing thine everlasting Son,
Who join'd our nature to his own;
Adam the second, from the dust
Raises the ruins of the first.

5 [By the rebellion of one man
Thro' all his seed the mischief ran;
And by one man's obedience now
Are all his seed made righteous too.

6 Where sin did reign, and death abound,
There have the sons of Adam found
Abounding life; there glorious grace
Reigns thro' the Lord our righteousness.]

Text Information

• First Line: Deep in the dust before thy throne
• Title: The first and second Adam
• Meter: L. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1793
• Scripture:
  Romans 5:12-19
• Notes: Public Domain.

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