1 Deep in the dust before Thy throne,
Our guilt and our disgrace we own;
Great God! we own th'unhappy name
Whence sprung our nature and our shame.
2 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.
3 We sing Thine everlasting Son,
Who joined our nature to His own:
The second Adam, from the dust,
Raises the ruins of the first.
4 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.
Amen.
Source: Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes #377
First Line: | Deep in the dust before thy throne |
Title: | The First and Second Adam |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Deep in the dust before Thy throne. I. Watts. [First and Second Adam.] From his Hymns & Spiritual Songs, 1709, Bk. i., No. 124, into a limited number of modern hymnals.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)