The first and second Adam. <br /> <br />Rom. 5:12,etc. <br /> <br />Deep in the dust before thy throne <br />Our guilt and our disgrace we own; <br />Great God! we own th' unhappy name <br />Whence sprang our nature and our shame; <br /> <br />Adam the sinner: at his fall, <br />Death like a conqueror seized us <br />A thousand new-born babes are dead <br />By fatal union to their head. <br /> <br />But whilst our spirits, filled with awe, <br />Behold the terrors of thy law, <br />We sing the honors of thy grace, <br />That sent to save our ruined race. <br /> <br />We sing thine everlasting Son, <br />Who joined our nature to his own: <br />Adam the second from the dust <br />Raises the ruins of the first. <br /> <br />[By the rebellion of one man <br />Through all his seed the mischief ran; <br />And by one man's obedience now <br />Are all his seed made righteous too.] <br /> <br />Where sin did reign, and death abound, <br />There have the sons of Adam found <br />Abounding life; there glorious grace <br />Reigns through the Lord our righteousness.<br /><br />Isaac Watts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hymn-124/
