Hymn 1:124 [Deep In The Dust Before Thy Throne]

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Title:     Hymn 1:124 [Deep In The Dust Before Thy Throne]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

The first and second Adam, Rom. 5. 12 &c.

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 seiz'd us all;
A thousand new-born babes are dead
By fatal union to their head.

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.

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.

[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.]

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.

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 1:124 [Deep In The Dust Before Thy Throne]

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