When Adam Fell (EN 47)

EN 47 When Adam Fell

Gen.4.8

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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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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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