LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| Writer(s): | James Montgomery
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| 1. A child of man, a child of God,
How wide their states must be!
Beneath his sceptre or his rod,
His wrath or clemency.
2. Children of Adam, Adam’s fall
From primal innocence,
Brought guilt and judgement on us all,
Entailed through one offence.
3. Trained in his image from our birth,
We sinned, ourselves, and fell,
Like him, from heirs
of heaven on earth,
To heirs of death and hell.
4. Transgressors while we thus remain,
In our own blood we lie;
We must be born, be born again,
Or die, forever die.
5. A child of man, a child of God,
How can such union be?
A worm created from a clod,
Allied to Deity!
6. Lo! Love divine, for man undone,
Devised the wondrous plan,
The Son of God, God’s only Son,
Became the Son of man.
7. Our path of life and death he trod,
That we like him might be,
Though sons of men, the sons of God,
Through his humanity.
8. All glory to the Father’s love,
Who sparéd not his Son,
And sent his Spirit form above,
To seal what Christ had done.
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