
Hymnal: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books #I.CXXIV (1793) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Deep in the dust before thy throne Lyrics: 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.] Scripture: Romans 5:12-19 Languages: English
The first and second Adam