{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_Nine/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_Nine","id":"wikisource_Young_Christian_s_first_lesson_book_Lesson_Nine","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Young_Christian's_first_lesson-book/Lesson_Nine","summary":null,"tags":["Main_pages_with_authority_control_data","PD-old","Subpages"],"text":"LESSON IX.\n\nThe Corruption of Nature and Sins of Life acknowledged.\n\nLORD when my wretched \u017foul \u017furveys\n\nThe various follies of my ways\nThe guilt of ev'ry word and thought,\n\nEv'ry neglect and ev'ry fault,\n\nWell may I tremble to appear.\n\nLaden with horror, \u017fhame and fear.\n\nAdam, our common head, alas!\n\nBrought \u017fin and death on all his race:\n\nFrom him my ruin'd nature came,\n\nHeir to his \u017forrow, and his \u017fhame;\n\nMy body weak, and dark my mind,\n\nTo good aver\u017fe, to \u017fin inclin'd:\n\nAnd oh! too \u017foon the deadly fruit\n\nRipen'd from that unhappy root.\n\nDuty requir'd my early care\n\nEach fond indulgence to forbear;\n\nRequir'd me, all the good I knew\n\nWith con\u017ftant vigour to pur\u017fue:\n\nBut my vain heart and \u017ftubborn will;\n\nIn its own ways would wander \u017ftill;\n\nLike a wild a\u017fs's colt would go\n\nOn to the wilderne\u017fs of woe.\n\nVainly I \u017feek to plead a word,\n\nSilent in guilt before the Lord.\n\nThis work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.\n\nPublic domainPublic domainfalsefalse","title":"Young Christian's first lesson-book/Lesson Nine","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":187}