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John Newton - Cain And Abel
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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! 

The sacrifice the Lord ordained
In type of the Redeemer`s blood,
Self-righteous reas`ning Cain disdained,
And thought his own first-fruits as good. 

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. 

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. 

Such was the wicked murd`rer Cain,
And such by nature still are we,
Until by grace we`re born again,
Malicious, blind and proud, as he. 

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. 

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! 

Thus Jesus fell - but O! his blood
Far better things than Abel`s cries:
Obtains his murd`rers peace with God,
And gains them mansions in the skies.
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