Sentenc’d the first Adam was

Verse 1
Sentenc’d the first Adam was
To a common sweat below:
Jesus, to retrieve our loss,
Sorer toil must undergo:
While he all our sins sustains,
See a sweat unseen before!
Forc’d by torture from his veins,
Blood transpires at every pore!

Verse 2
See the salutary stream
Flowing from the sinner’s Friend!
Big with virtue to redeem,
Large the drops on man descend;
Drops which falling to the ground
Purge the universal stain:
There the precious ransom’s found,
There my peace is seal’d again!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.’—[Luke 22,] v. 44.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 195-96. Verse 2 was published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 292.
Publishing: Public Domain