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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419111" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From Mount Ebal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus having heard from Gerizzim, I shall<br>Next come to Ebal, and you thither call,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not there to curse you, but to let you hear<br>How God doth curse that soul that shall appear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An unbelieving man, a graceless wretch;<br>Because he doth continue in the breach</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of Moses' law, and also doth neglect<br>To close with Jesus; him will God reject</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And cast behind him; for of right his due<br>Is that from whence all miseries ensue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cursed, saith he, are thy that do transgress<br>The least of my commandments, more or less.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing that written is must broken be,<br>But always must be kept unto by thee,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And must fulfilled be; for here no man<br>Can look God in the face, or ever stand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the judgment-seat; for if they be<br>Convict, condemned too assuredly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now keep this law no mortal creature can,<br>For they already do, as guilty, stand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the God that gave it; so that they<br>Obnoxious to the curse lie every day,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which also they must feel for certainty,<br>If unto Jesus Christ they do not fly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hence, then, as they for ever shall be blest,<br>That do by faith upon the promise rest,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So peace unto the wicked there is none;<br>'Tis wrath and death that they must feed upon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That what I say may some impression make<br>On carnal hearts, that they in time may take</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That course that best will prove when time is done,<br>These lines I add to what I have begun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First, thou must know that God, as he is love<br>So he is justice, therefore cannot move,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or in the least be brought to favour those<br>His holiness and justice doth oppose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For though thou mayst imagine in thy heart<br>That God is this or that, yet if thou art</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At all besides the truth of what he is,<br>And so dost build thy hope for life amiss,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still he the same abideth, and will be<br>The same, the same for ever unto thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As God is true unto his promise, so<br>Unto his threat'ning he is faithful too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cease to be God he must, if he should break<br>One tittle that his blessed mouth did speak.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, then, none can be saved but the men<br>With whom the Godhead is contented when</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It them beholds with the severest eye<br>Of justice, holiness, and yet can spy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No fault nor blemish in them; these be they<br>That must be saved, as the Scriptures say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If this be true, as 'tis assuredly,<br>Woe be to them that wicked live and die;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those that as far from holiness have been<br>All their life long as if no eye had seen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their doings here, or as if God did not<br>At all regard, or in the least mind what,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherein, or how they did his law transgress,<br>Either by this or other wickedness;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But how deceived these poor creatures are,<br>They then shall know when they their burthen bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, our God is a consuming fire;<br>So is his law, by which he doth require</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That thou submit to him, and if thou be<br>Not in that justice found that can save thee</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From all and every sentence which he spake<br>Upon mount Sinai, then as one that brake</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It, thou the flames thereof shall quickly find<br>As scourges thee to lash, while sins do bind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thee hand and foot, for ever to endure<br>The strokes of vengeance for thy life impure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What I have said will yet evinced be,<br>And manifest abundantly to thee,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If what I have already spoken to<br>Be joined with these lines that do ensue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Justice discovers its antipathy<br>Against profaneness and malignity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not only by the law it gave to men,<br>And threatenings thereunto annexed then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But inasmuch as long before that day,<br>He did prepare for such as go astray,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That dreadful, that so much amazing place–<br>Hell, with its torments–for those men that grace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And holiness of life slight and disdain,<br>There to bemoan themselves with hellish pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This place, also, the pains so dismal be,<br>Both as to name and nature, that in me</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not to express the damning wights,<br>The hellish torture, and the fearful plights</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thereof; for as intolerable they<br>Must needs be found, by those that disobey</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lord, so can no word or thought express<br>Unto the full the height of that distress;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such miserable caitiffs, that shall there<br>Rebukes of vengeance, for transgressions bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Indeed the holy Scriptures do make use<br>Of many metaphors, that do conduce</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Much to the symbolizing of the place,<br>Unto our apprehension; but the case–</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sad, the woeful case–of those that lie<br>As racked there in endless misery,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By all similitudes no mortals may<br>Set forth in its own nature; for I say</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Similitudes are but a shade, and show<br>Of those or that they signify to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fire that doth within thine oven burn,<br>The prison where poor people sit and mourn,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chains, racks, and darkness, and such others, be<br>As painting on the wall, to let thee see</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By word and figures the extremity<br>Of such as shall within these burnings lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But certainly, if wickedness and sin<br>Had only foolish toys and trifles been,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if God had not greatly hated it,<br>Yea, could he any ways thereof admit,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And let it pass, he would not thus have done.<br>He doth not use to punish any one</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With any place or punishment that is<br>Above or sharper than the sin of his</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hath merited, and justice seeth due;<br>Read sin, then, by the death that doth ensue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most men do judge of sin, not by the fruits<br>It bears and bringeth forth, but as it suits</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their carnal and deluded hearts, that be<br>With sensual pleasures eaten up; but he</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That now so judgeth, shortly shall perceive<br>That God will judge thereof himself, and leave</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such men no longer to their carnal lusts,<br>To judge of wickedness, and of the just</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And righteous punishment that doth of right<br>Belong thereto; and will, too, in despite</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all their carnal reason, justify<br>Himself, in their eternal misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then hell will be no fancy, neither will<br>Men's sins be pleasant to them; but so ill</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And bitter, yea, so bitter, that none can<br>Fully express the same, or ever stand</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under the burden it will on them lay,<br>When they from life and bliss are sent away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I have thought how often God doth speak<br>Of their destruction, who HIS law do break;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the nature of the punishment<br>I find so dreadful, and that God's intent,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, resolution is, it to inflict<br>On every sinner that shall stand convict,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have amazed been, yet to behold,<br>To see poor sinners yet with sin so bold,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That like the horse that to the battle runs,<br>Without all fear, and that no danger shuns,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till down he falls. O resolute attempts!<br>O sad, amazing, damnable events!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The end of such proceedings needs must be,<br>From which, O Lord, save and deliver me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if thou think that God thy noble race<br>Will more respect, than into such a place</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To put thee; hold, though thou his offspring be,<br>And so art lovely, yet sin hath made thee</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another kind of creature than when thou<br>Didst from his fingers drop, and therefore now</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy first creation stands thee in no stead;<br>Thou hast transgressed, and in very deed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Set God against thee, who is infinite,<br>And that for certain never will forget</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy sins, nor favour thee if thou shalt die<br>A graceless man; this is thy misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When angels sinned, though of higher race<br>Than thou, and also put in higher place,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet them he spared not, but cast them down<br>From heaven to hell; where also they lie bound</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In everlasting chains, and no release<br>Shall ever have, but wrath, that shall increase</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon them, to their everlasting woe.<br>As for the state they were exalted to,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That will by no means mitigate their fear,<br>But aggravate their hellish torment here;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he that highest stands, if he shall fall,<br>His danger needs must be the great'st of all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now if God noble angels did not spare<br>Because they did transgress, will he forbear</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor dust and ashes? Will he suffer them<br>To break his law, and sin, and not condemn</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Them for so doing? Let not man deceive<br>Himself or others; they that do bereave</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Themselves by sin of happiness, shall be<br>Cut off by justice, and have misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Witness his great severity upon<br>The world that first was planted, wherein none</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But only eight the deluge did escape,<br>All others of that vengeance did partake;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The reason was, that world ungodly stood<br>Before him, therefore he did send the flood,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which swept them all away. A just reward<br>For their most wicked ways against the Lord,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who could no longer bear them and their ways,<br>Therefore into their bosom vengeance pays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We read of Sodom, and Gomorrah too,<br>What judgments they for sin did undergo;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How God from heaven did fire upon them rain,<br>Because they would not wicked ways refrain;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Condemning of them with an overthrow,<br>And turned them to ashes. Who can know</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The miseries that these poor people felt<br>While they did underneath those burnings melt?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now these, and many more that I could name,<br>That have been made partakers of the flame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And sword of justice, God did then cut off,<br>And make examples unto all that scoff</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At holiness, or do the gospel slight;<br>And long it will not be before the night</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And judgment, painted out by what he did<br>To Sodom and Gomorrah, fulfilled</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon such sinners be, that they may now<br>That God doth hate the sin, and persons too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of such as still rebellious shall abide,<br>Although they now at judgment may deride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Bunyan">John Bunyan</a><div class=q>
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How God doth curse that soul that shall appear

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