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Verse 4

Believing in the woman’s Seed, And justified by faith alone, Abel a nobler offering made, And God vouchsafed his gifts to own.

Witness Divine he thus obtain’d, The gift of righteousness received; And now he wears the crown he gain’d, And sees the Christ he once believed.

Still by his faith he speaks, though dead He calls us to the living way: We hear; and in his footsteps tread: We first believe, and then obey.