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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From Mount Gerizzim</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">esides what I said of the Four Last Things,<br>And of the weal and woe that from them springs;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An after-word still runneth in my mind,<br>Which I shall here expose unto that wind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That may it blow into that very hand<br>That needs it. Also that it may be scann'd</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With greatest soberness, shall be my prayer,<br>As well as diligence and godly care;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So to present it unto public view,<br>That only truth and peace may thence ensue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My talk shall be of that amazing love<br>Of God we read of; which, that it may prove,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By its engaging arguments to save<br>Thee, I shall lay out that poor help I have</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thee to entice; that thou wouldst dearly fall<br>In love with thy salvation, and with all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That doth thereto concur, that thou mayst be<br>As blessed as the Blessed can make thee,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not only here but in the world to come,<br>In bliss, which, I pray God, may be thy home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But first, I would advise thee to bethink<br>Thyself, how sin hath laid thee at the brink</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of hell, where thou art lulled fast asleep<br>In Satan's arms, who also will thee keep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As senseless and secure as e'er he may,<br>Lest thou shouldst wake, and see't, and run away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto that Jesus, whom the Father sent<br>Into the world, for this cause and intent,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That such as thou, from such a thrall as this<br>Might'st be released, and made heir of bliss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that thou may'st awake, the danger fly,<br>And so escape the death that others die,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, let me set my trumpet to thine ear,<br>Be willing all my message for to hear:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis for thy life, O do it not refuse;<br>Wo unto them good counsel do abuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art at present in that very case,<br>Which argues thou art destitute of grace:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he that lies where sin hath laid him, lies<br>Under the curse, graceless, and so he dies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In body and in soul, within that range,<br>If God his heart in mercy doth not change</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before he goes the way of all the earth,<br>Before he lose his spirit and his breath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Repentance there is none within the grave,<br>Nor Christ, nor grace, nor mercies for to save</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thee from the vengeance due unto thy sin,<br>If now thou dost not truly close with him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art like him that sleepeth in the sea<br>On broken boards, which, without guide or stay,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are driven whither winds and water will;<br>While greedy beasts do wait to have their fill</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By feeding on his carcass, when he shall<br>Turn overboard, and without mercy fall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into the jaws of such as make a prey<br>Of those whom justice drowneth in the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art like him that snoring still doth lie<br>Upon the bed of vain security,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whilst all about him into burning flame<br>By fire is turned; yea, and while the frame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And building where he lies consuming is,<br>And while himself these burnings cannot miss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou art like one that hangeth by a thread<br>Over the mouth of hell, as one half-dead;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And O, how soon this thread may broken be,<br>Or cut by death, is yet unknown to thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But sure it is, if all the weight of sin,<br>And all that Satan, too, hath doing been,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or yet can do, can break this crazy thread,<br>'Twill not be long before, among the dead,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou tumble do, as linked fast in chains,<br>With them to wait in fear for future pains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What shall I say? Wilt thou not yet awake?<br>Nor yet of thy poor soul some pity take?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among the lions it hood-winked lies;<br>O, that the Lord would open once thine eyes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That thou might'st see it, then I dare say thou,<br>As half-bereft of wits, wouldst cry out, How</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I escape? Lord help, O! help with speed,<br>Reach down thy hand from heav'n, for help I need,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To save me from the lions, for I fear<br>This soul of mine they will in pieces tear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, then, and let us both expostulate<br>The case betwixt us, till we animate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And kindle in our hearts that burning love<br>To Christ, to grace, to life, that we may move</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swifter than eagles to this blessed prey;<br>Then shall it be well with us in that day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trump shall sound, the dead made rise, and stand,<br>Then to receive, for breach of God's command,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such thunder-claps as these, Depart from me<br>Into hell-fire, you that the wicked be,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prepared for the devil, and for those<br>That with him and his angels rather chose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To live in filthy sin and wickedness,<br>Whose fruit is everlasting bitterness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We both are yet on this side of the grave,<br>We also gospel-privileges have;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The word, and time to pray; God give us hearts,<br>That, like the wise man, we may act our parts,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To get the pearl of price; then we shall be<br>Like godly Mary, Peter, Paul, and we</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like Jacob, too, the blessing shall obtain;<br>While Esau rides a-hunting for the gain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of worldly pelf, which will him not avail<br>When death or judgment shall him sore assail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, to encourage us for to begin,<br>Let us believe the kingdom we may win,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And be possess'd thereof, if we the way<br>Shall hit into, and then let nothing stay</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or hinder us; the crown is at the end,<br>Let's run and strive, and fly, and let's contend</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With greatest courage it for to obtain;<br>'Tis life, and peace, and everlasting gain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gate of life, the new and living way,<br>The promise holdeth open all the day,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which thou by Jacob's ladder must ascend,<br>Where angels always wait, and do attend</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As ministers, to minister for those<br>That do with God, and Christ, and glory close.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If guilt of sin still lieth at our door,<br>Us to discourage, let us set before</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our eyes a bleeding Jesus, who did die<br>The death, and let's believe the reason why</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He did it, was that we might ever be<br>From death and sin, from hell and wrath set free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, let's remember for that very end<br>It was his blessed Father did him send;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That he the law of God might here fulfil,<br>That so the mystery of his blessed will</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Might be revealed in the blessedness<br>Of those that fly to Christ for righteousness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now let us argue with ourselves, then, thus<br>That Jesus Christ our Lord came to save us,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By bearing of our sins upon his back,<br>By hanging on the cross as on a rack,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While justice cut him off on every side,<br>While smiles Divine themselves from him did hide,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While earth did quake, and rocks in pieces rent,<br>And while the sun, as veiled, did lament</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To see the innocent and harmless die<br>So sore a death, so full of misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, let us turn again, and say, All this<br>He did and suffered for love of his.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He brought in everlasting righteousness,<br>That he might cover all our nakedness;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wept and wash'd his face with brinish tears<br>That we might saved be from hellish fears;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blood was his sweat, too, in his agony,<br>That we might live in joyful ecstasy;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He apprehended was and led away,<br>That grace to us-ward never might decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With swords, and bills, and outrage in the night,<br>That to the peace of heav'n we might have right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Condemned he was between two thieves to die,<br>That we might ever in his bosom lie;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scourged with whips his precious body were,<br>That we lashes of conscience might not fear;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His head was crowned with thorns, that we might be<br>Crowned with glory and felicity;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He hanged was upon a cursed tree,<br>That we delivered from death might be;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His Father from him hides his smiles and face,<br>That we might have them in the heavenly place;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He cry'd, My God, why hast forsaken me?<br>That we forsaken of him might not be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into his side was thrust a bloody spear,<br>That we the sting of death might never fear;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He went into the grave after all this,<br>That we might up to heav'n go, and have bliss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, rise again he did out of the earth,<br>And shook off from him all the chains of death;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then at his chariot wheels he captive led<br>His foes, and trod upon the serpent's head;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Riding in triumph to his Father's throne,<br>There to possess the kingdom as his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What say'st thou, wilt not yet unto him come?<br>His arms are open, in his heart is room</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To lay thee; be not then discouraged,<br>Although thy sins be many, great, and red;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto thee righteousness he will impute,<br>And with the kisses of his mouth salute</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy drooping soul, and will it so uphold,<br>As that thy shaking conscience shall be bold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To come to mercy's seat with great access,<br>There to expostulate with that justice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That burns like fiery flames against all those<br>That do not with this blessed Jesus close;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which unto thee will do no harm, but good,<br>Because thou hast reliance on that blood</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That justice saith hath given him content,<br>For all that do unfeignedly repent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their ill-spent life, and roll upon free grace,<br>That they within that bosom might have place,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That open is to such, where they shall lie<br>In ease, and gladness, and felicity,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">World without end, according to that state<br>I have, nay, better than I, can relate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou shalt still object, thou yet art vile,<br>And hast a heart that will not reconcile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto the holy law, but will rebel,<br>Hark yet to what I shall thee farther tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two things are yet behind that help thee will,<br>If God should put into thy mind that skill,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So to improve them as becometh those<br>That would with mercy and forgiveness close.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First, then, let this sink down into thy heart,<br>That Christ is not a Saviour in part,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But every way so fully he is made<br>That all of those that underneath his shade</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And wing would sit, and shroud their weary soul,<br>That even Moses dare it not control,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But justify it, approve of 't, and conclude<br>No man nor angel must himself intrude</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With such doctrine that may oppose the same,<br>On pain of blaspheming that holy name,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which God himself hath given unto men,<br>To stay, to trust, to lean themselves on, when</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They feel themselves assaulted, and made fear<br>Their sin will not let them in life appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For as God made him perfect righteousness,<br>That he his love might to the height express,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And us present complete before the throne;<br>Sanctification, too, of his own</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He hath prepared, in which do we stand,<br>Complete in holiness, at his right hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now this sanctification is not<br>That holiness which is in us, but that</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which in the person of this Jesus is,<br>And can inherently be only his.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But is imputed to us for our good.<br>As is his active righteousness and blood;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which is the cause, though we infirm are found,<br>That mercy and forgiveness doth abound</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To us-ward, and that why we are not shent[1]<br>And empty, and away rebuked sent,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because that all we do imperfect is.<br>Bless God, then, for this holiness of his,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And learn to look by faith on that alone,<br>When thou seest thou hast nothing of thine own;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, when thy heart most willing is to do<br>What God by his good word doth call thee to;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when thou find'st most holiness within,<br>And greatest power over every sin,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet then to Jesus look, and thou shalt see<br>In him sanctification for thee,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far more complete than all that thou canst find<br>In the most upright heart and willing mind,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That ever man or angels did possess,<br>When most filled with inherent righteousness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Besides, if thou forgettest here to live,<br>And Satan get thee once into his sieve,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He will so hide thy wheat, and show thy brun[2]<br>That thou wilt quickly cry, I am undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, thy goodliest attainments here,<br>Though like the fairest blossoms they appear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How quickly will they lour and decay,<br>And be as if they all were fled away,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When once the east-wind of temptations beat<br>Upon thee, with their dry and blasting heat!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rich men will not account their treasure lies<br>In crack'd groats and four-pence half-pennies,[3] </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in those bags they have within their chests,<br>In staple goods, which shall within their breasts</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have place accordingly, because they see<br>Their substance lieth here. But if that be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But shaken, then they quickly fear, and cry,<br>Alas, 'tis not this small and odd money,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We carry in our pockets for to spend,<br>Will make us rich, or much will stand our friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If famine or if want do us assail,<br>How quickly will these little pieces fail!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If thou be wise, consider what I say<br>And look for all in Christ, where no decay</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is like to be; then though thy present frame<br>Be much in up-and-down, yet he the same</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abideth, yea, and still at God's right hand,<br>As thy most perfect holiness will stand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is, I say, not like to that in thee,<br>Now high, then low, now out, then in, but he</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most perfect is, when thou art at the worst<br>The same, the very same; I said at first,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This helpeth much when thou art buffeted,<br>And when thy graces lie in thee as dead;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then to believe they are all perfect still<br>In Christ thy head, who hath that blessed skill,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet to present thee by what is in him<br>Unto his Father, one that hath no sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, this will fill thy mouth with argument<br>Against the tempter, when he shall present</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before thee all thy weakness, and shall hide<br>From thee thy graces, that thou mayst abide</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under the fretting fumes of unbelief,<br>Which never yielded Christian man relief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor help thyself thou mayst against him thus:<br>O Satan, though my heart indeed be worse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Than 'twas a while ago, yet I perceive<br>Thou shalt me not of happiness bereave,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor yet of holiness; for by the Word<br>I find that Jesus Christ, our blessed Lord,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is made sanctification for me<br>In his own person, where all graces be,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As water in the fountain; and that I,<br>By means of that, have yet a sanctity,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Both personal and perfect every way;<br>And that is Christ himself, as Paul doth say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, though my crazy pitcher oft doth leak,<br>By means of which my graces are so weak,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so much spent, that one I cannot find<br>Able to stay or help my feeble mind;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet then I look to Jesus, and see all<br>In him that wanting is in me, and shall</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again take courage, and believe he will<br>Present me upright in his person, till</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He humble me for all my foolishness,<br>And then again fill me with holiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, if thou lovest inward sanctity,<br>As all the saints do most unfeignedly,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then add, to what I have already said,<br>Faith in the promise; and be not afraid</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To urge it often at the throne of grace,<br>And to expect it in its time and place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he that true is, and that cannot lie,<br>Will give it unto thee, that thou thereby</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mayst serve with faith, with fear, in truth and love,<br>That God that did at first thy spirit move</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To ask it to his praise, that he might be<br>Thy God, and that he might delight in thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I should here particulars relate,<br>Methinks it could not but much animate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy heart, though very listless to inquire<br>How thou mayst that enjoy, which all desire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That love themselves and future happiness;<br>But O, I cannot fully it express:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The promise is so open and so free,<br>In all respects, to those that humble be,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That want they cannot what for them is good;<br>But there 'tis, and confirmed is with blood,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A certain sign, all those enjoy it may,<br>That see they want it, and sincerely pray</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To God the Father, in that Jesus' name<br>Who bled on purpose to confirm the same.</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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And of the weal and woe that from them springs;

An after-word still runneth in my mind,
Which I shall here expose unto that wind

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