HYMN 124
380 L. M.
The first and second Adam. Rom. 5:12, etc.
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; | Adam the sinner: at his fall, Death like a conqueror seized us A thousand new-born babes are dead By fatal union to their head. | But whilst our spirits, filled with awe, Behold the terrors of thy law, We sing the honors of thy grace, That sent to save our ruined race. | We sing thine everlasting Son, Who joined our nature to his own: Adam the second from the dust Raises the ruins of the first. | [By the rebellion of one man Through all his seed the mischief ran; And by one man's obedience now Are all his seed made righteous too.] | Where sin did reign, and death abound, There have the sons of Adam found Abounding life; there glorious grace Reigns through the Lord our righteousness. | |