<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412758" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn 57</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Original sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rom. 5:12, etc.; Psa. 51:5; Job 14:4. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Backward with humble shame we look<br>On our original;<br>How is our nature dashed and broke<br>In our first father's fall!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To all that's good averse and blind,<br>But prone to all that's ill<br>What dreadful darkness veils our mind!<br>How obstinate our will!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Conceived in sin, O wretched state!<br>Before we draw our breath<br>The first young pulse begins to beat<br>Iniquity and death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How strong in our degen'rate blood<br>The old corruption reigns,<br>And, mingling with the crooked flood,<br>Wanders through all our veins.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Wild and unwholesome as the root<br>Will all the branches be;<br>How can we hope for living fruit<br>From such a deadly tree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What mortal power from things unclean<br>Can pure productions bring?<br>Who can command a vital stream<br>From an infected spring?]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, mighty God! thy wondrous love<br>Can make our nature clean,<br>While Christ and grace prevail above<br>The tempter, death, and sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The second Adam shall restore<br>The ruins of the first;<br>Hosannah to that sovereign power<br>That new-creates our dust!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Watts">Isaac Watts</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412758" data-title="Hymn 57 de Isaac Watts" data-description="Original sin. Rom. 5:12, etc.; Psa. 51:5; Job 14:4. Backward with humble shame we look On our original; How is our nature dashed and broke In our first father's fall! To all that's good averse and blind, But prone to all that's ill What dreadf..."></div> </div> </div>

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