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A child of man, a child of God,
How wide their states must be!
Beneath His sceptre or His rod,
His wrath or clemency.
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Children of Adam, Adam's fall
From primal innocence,
Brought guilt and judgment on us all,
Entail'd through one offence.
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Train'd in His image from our birth,
We sinn'd, ourselves, and fell,
Like him, from heirs of heaven on earth,
To heirs of death and hell.
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Transgressors while we thus remain,
In our own blood we lie;
We must be born, be born again,
Or die, for ever die.
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A child of man, a child of God,
How can such union be?
A worm created from a clod,
Allied to Deity!
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Lo! love divine, for man undone,
Devised the wondrous plan,
The Son of God, God's only Son,
Became the Son of man.
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Our path of life and death He trod,
That we like Him might be,
Though sons of men, the sons of God,
Through His humanity.
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All glory to the Father's love,
Who spared not His Son,
Aud sent His Spirit from above,
To seal what Christ had done.
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