When Adam Fell
VERSE 1
When
Adam fell, he quickly lost
God’s
image, which he once possessed:
See all
our nature since could boast
In Cain,
his first-born son, expressed!
VERSE 2
The
sacrifice the Lord ordained
In type
of the Redeemer’s blood,
Self-righteous
reasoning Cain disdained,
And
thought his own first-fruits as good.
VERSE 3
Yet rage
and envy filled his mind,
When,
with a fallen, downcast look,
He saw
his brother favor find,
Who
God’s appointed method took.
VERSE 4
By
Cain’s own hand, good Abel died,
Because
the Lord approved his faith;
And,
when his blood for vengeance cried,
He
vainly thought to hide his death.
VERSE 5
Such was
the wicked murderer Cain,
And such
by nature still are we,
Until by
grace we’re born again,
Malicious,
blind and proud, as he.
VERSE 6
Like him
the way of grace we slight,
And in
our own devices trust;
Call
evil good, and darkness light,
And hate
and persecute the just.
VERSE 7
The
saints, in every age and place,
Have
found this history fulfilled;
The
numbers all our thoughts surpass
Of
Abels, whom the Cains have killed!
VERSE 8
Thus
Jesus fell—but O! His blood
Far
better things than Abel’s cries:
Obtains
His murderers peace with God,
And
gains them mansions in the skies.
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