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MAN.

Hymn.

Original Sin.

BACKWARD with humble shame we look

On our original!

How is our nature dash'd and broke
In our first father's fall!

2 To all that's good averse and blind;
But prone to all that's ill:

What dreadful darkness veils our mind!
How obstinate our will!

3 Yet, mighty GOD! Thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean,

While CHRIST and grace prevail above
The tempter, death, and sin.

4 The second ADAM shall restore
The ruins of the first:

Hosanna to that sov'reign Pow'r,
Which new creates our dust!

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Hymn.

Our fallen state by Nature.

How sad our state by nature is!
Our sin, how deep it's stains!
And Satan binds our captive minds
Fast in his slavish chains.

2 But there's a voice of sov'reign grace
Sounds from the sacred Word;
Ho! ye despairing sinners, come,
And trust upon the LORD.

3 O may we hear th' Almighty call,
And run to this relief!

We would believe Thy promise, LORD;
O help our unbelief!

4 To the blest fountain of Thy blood
Teach us, O LORD, to fly!
There may we wash our spotted souls
From sins of deepest dye!

5 Stretch out Thine arm, victorious King, Our reigning sins subdue;

Drive the old dragon from his seat,
And form our hearts anew.

6 Poor, guilty, weak, and helpless worms, On Thy kind arm we fall;

Be Thou our strength and righteousness,
Our JESUS and our All.

Hymn.

Our fallen state by Nature.

1 GREAT King of glory and of grace, We own with humble shame,

How vile is our degenerate race,

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And our first father's name.

2 From Adam flows our tainted blood,
The poison reigns within,
Makes us averse to all that's good,
And willing slaves to sin.

3 We live estrang'd afar from GOD,
And love the distance well;

With haste we run the dang'rous road
That leads to death and hell.

4 And can such rebels be restor❜d?
Such natures made divine?
Let sinners see Thy glory, LORD,
And feel this pow'r of Thine.

5 We praise our FATHER'S Name on high,
Who sends His SPIRIT down,
To bring rebellious strangers nigh,
And raise them to His throne.

Hymn.

Helplessness of fallen Man.

1 How helpless guilty nature lies,

Unconscious of it's load!

The heart unchang'd can never rise
To happiness and GOD,

2 The will perverse, the passions blind,
In paths of ruin stray :
Reason, so sunk, can never find
The safe, the narrow way.

3 Can aught beneath a pow'r divine
The stubborn will subdue ?
'Tis Thine, eternal SPIRIT, thine
To form the heart anew.

4 O shine on us, with quick'ning ray,
And bid the sinner live!
That we may walk the heav'nly way,
And endless praises give.

Hymn.

Deceitfulness of Sin.

1 SIN has a thousand treacherous arts
To practise on the mind;
With flatt'ring looks she tempts our hearts,
But leaves a sting behind.

2 With names of virtue she deceives
The aged and the young;

And while the heedless wretch believes,
She makes his fetters strong.

3 She pleads for all the joys she brings,
And gives a fair pretence;

But cheats the soul of heav'nly things,
And chains it down to sense.

4 So on a tree divinely fair

Grew the forbidden food;

Our mother took the poison there,

And tainted all her blood.

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Enmity of fallen Man.

ALAS! by nature how deprav'd!
How prone to ev'ry ill!

Our lives to Satan how enslav'd!
How obstinate our will!

2 And can such sinners be restor❜d?
Such rebels reconcil'd?

Can grace itself the means afford
To make a foe a child?

3 Yes, grace has found the wondrous means,

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To cleanse us from our countless sins,

And teach our hearts to love.

4 JESUS for sinners-undertakes,
And died that we may live;
His blood a full atonement makes,
And cries aloud, "Forgive."

5 The holy SPIRIT must reveal

The SAVIOUR's work and worth; Then the hard heart begins to feel A new and heav'nly birth.

6 Thus, bought with blood, and born again, Redeem'd and sav'd by grace,

Rebels in GOD's own house obtain
A son's and daughter's place.

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