We all are sprung from Adam’s line,
The workmanship of Love Divine,
Who doth his family disperse;
God all our motions regulates,
The time of our duration sets,
And spreads us o’re the universe:
Nothing to fate, or chance He leaves;
The nations bounds to each he gives
To each assigns their measur’d land:
Rivers their course appointed know,
And seas by his direction flow,
And everlasting mountains stand.
We all are sprung from Adam’s line
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And hath made of one blood all nations of men, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.’—[Acts 17,] v. 26." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 341.
Publishing: Public Domain