<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412674" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn 153</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The distemper, folly, and madness of sin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sin, like a venomous disease,<br>Infects our vital blood;<br>The only balm is sovereign grace,<br>And the physician, God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our beauty and our strength are fled,<br>And we draw near to death;<br>But Christ the Lord recalls the dead<br>With his almighty breath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Madness by nature reigns within,<br>The passions burn and rage,<br>Till God's own Son, with skill divine,<br>The inward fire assuage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[We lick the dust, we grasp the wind,<br>And solid good despise;<br>Such is the folly of the mind,<br>Till Jesus makes us wise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We give our souls the wounds they feel,<br>We drink the pois'nous gall,<br>And rush with fury down to hell;<br>But Heav'n prevents the fall.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[The man possessed among the tombs<br>Cuts his own flesh, and cries;<br>He foams and raves, till Jesus comes,<br>And the foul spirit flies.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Watts">Isaac Watts</a><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=412674" data-title="Hymn 153 de Isaac Watts" data-description="The distemper, folly, and madness of sin Sin, like a venomous disease, Infects our vital blood; The only balm is sovereign grace, And the physician, God. Our beauty and our strength are fled, And we draw near to death; But Christ the Lord recall..."></div> </div> </div>

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