You know that we are some of Adam’s children’s children. It was for us that Jesus came to die. We are wicked, and we should go to hell, if Jesus had not promised to die for us. We ought to love the Father and the Son, because they had pity on us.
Let us praise God with the angels, and say,—
“We thank thee, O Father, for thy tender love, in giving up thine only Son.
“We thank thee, O Son, for thy tender love, in coming down to bleed and die.”
The Father waited a long while before he sent his Son down to be a man.
All the time the Son waited in heaven he thought of what he promised to do; but he would not go and be a man till his Father pleased to send him.
Adam has sinn’d: and on the ground
Shall thorns and thistles grow;
His body lies in dust; his soul—