<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419114" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How Graces Are To Be Obtained</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The next word that I would unto thee say,<br>Is how thou mayst attain without delay,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those blessed graces, and that holiness<br>Thou dost with so much godly zeal express</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy love to, and thy longing to enjoy,<br>That sins and weakness might thee less annoy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Know, then, as I have hinted heretofore,<br>And shall now speak unto a little more,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All graces in the person of the Son<br>Are by the Father hid, and therefore none</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can them obtain but they who with him close;<br>All others graceless are but only those;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For of his fullness 'tis that we receive,<br>And grace for grace; let no man then deceive</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Himself or others with a feigned show<br>Of holiness, if Jesus they eschew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he ascended to his Father, then<br>It was that he received gifts for men;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faith, hope, and love, true zeal, an upright heart,<br>Right humbleness of mind, and every part</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of what the word of life counts holiness,<br>God then laid up in him, that we redress</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And help might have, who do unto him fly<br>For righteousness and gospel sanctity.</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> <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=419114" data-title="How Graces Are To Be Obtained de John Bunyan" data-description="The next word that I would unto thee say, Is how thou mayst attain without delay, Those blessed graces, and that holiness Thou dost with so much godly zeal express Thy love to, and thy longing to enjoy, That sins and weakness might thee less ann..."></div> </div> </div>

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