PSALM 8. v. 3, &c. Paraphrased.
Second Part. (L. M.) Adam and Christ, Lords of the Old and the New Creation.
I
Lord, what was man, when made at first,
Adam the offspring of the dust,
That thou should'st set him and his race
But just below an angel's place?
II
That thou should'st raise his nature so,
And make him lord of all below;
Make every beast and bird submit,
And lay the fishes at his feet?
III
But O, what brighter glories wait
To crown the second Adam's state!
What honours shall thy Son adorn
Who condescended to be born!
IV
See him below his angels made,
See him in dust amongst the dead,
To save a ruin'd world from sin;
But he shall reign with power divine.
V
The world to come, redeem'd from all
The miseries that attend the fall,
New made, and glorious, shall submit
At our exalted Saviour's feet.
I am persuaded the true meaning of the apostle, in citing the
words of this psalm, and applying them to our Saviour, Heb. ii. 5,
&c. is to shew that Christ, the second Adam, must have dominion
over the new world, as Adam, the first man, had over the old; and
that he is truly and really man, because the first Adam is the figure
and type of him in this his dominion.
