<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115586" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Word to the Calvinists</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You may rejoice to think yourselves secure,<br>You may be grateful for the gift divine,<br>That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure<br>And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine.<br>But is it sweet to look around and view<br>Thousands excluded from that happiness,<br>Which they deserve at least as much as you,<br>Their faults not greater nor their virtues less?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And wherefore should you love your God the more<br>Because to you alone his smiles are given,<br>Because He chose to pass the many o'er<br>And only bring the favoured few to Heaven?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And wherefore should your hearts more grateful prove<br>Because for all the Saviour did not die?<br>Is yours the God of justice and of love<br>And are your bosoms warm with charity?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say does your heart expand to all mankind<br>And would you ever to your neighbour do,<br>- The weak, the strong, the enlightened and the blind -­<br>As you would have your neighbour do to you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, when you, looking on your fellow men<br>Behold them doomed to endless misery,<br>How can you talk of joy and rapture then?<br>May God withhold such cruel joy from me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That none deserve eternal bliss I know:<br>Unmerited the grace in mercy given,<br>But none shall sink to everlasting woe<br>That have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, O! there lives within my heart<br>A hope long nursed by me,<br>(And should its cheering ray depart<br>How dark my soul would be)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That as in Adam all have died<br>In Christ shall all men live<br>And ever round his throne abide<br>Eternal praise to give;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That even the wicked shall at last<br>Be fitted for the skies<br>And when their dreadful doom is past<br>To life and light arise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ask not how remote the day<br>Nor what the sinner's woe<br>Before their dross is purged away,<br>Enough for me to know</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That when the cup of wrath is drained,<br>The metal purified,<br>They'll cling to what they once disdained,<br>And live by Him that died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Bront%C3%AB">Anne Brontë</a> from <i>Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115586" data-title="A Word to the Calvinists de Anne Brontë" data-description="You may rejoice to think yourselves secure,/You may be grateful for the gift divine,/That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure/And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine./But is it sweet to look around and view/Thousands excluded..."></div> </div> </div>

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