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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419127" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Imputed Righteousness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, if thou wouldst inherit righteousness,<br>And so sanctification possess</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In body, soul, and spirit, then thou must<br>To Jesus fly, as one ungodly first;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so by him crave pardon for thy sin<br>Which thou hast loved, and hast lived in;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For this cannot at all forgiven be,<br>For any righteousness that is in thee;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because the best thou hast is filthy rags,<br>Profane, presumptuous, and most beastly brags</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of flesh and blood, which always cross doth lie<br>To God, to grace, and thy felicity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then righteousness imputed thou must have,<br>Thee from that guilt and punishment to save</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou liest under as a sinful man,<br>Throughout polluted, and that never can</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By any other means acquitted be,<br>Or ever have true holiness in thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The reason is, because all graces are<br>Only in Christ, and be infused where,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or into those whom he doth justify,<br>By what himself hath done, that he thereby</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Might be the whole of all that happiness<br>The sinner shall enjoy here, and in bliss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Besides, if holiness should first be found<br>In those whom God doth pardon, then the ground</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why we forgiven are would seem to be,<br>He first found holiness in thee and me;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this the holy Scriptures will refute,<br>And prove that righteousness he doth impute</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without respect to goodness first in man;<br>For, to speak truth indeed, no goodness can</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be found in those that underneath the law<br>Do stand; for if God goodness in them saw,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why doth he once and twice say, There is none<br>That righteous be; no, not so much as one;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">None understandeth, none seek after God,<br>His ways they have not known, but have abode</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In wickedness, unprofitably they<br>Must needs appear to be then every way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their throats an open sepulchre, also<br>Their mouths are full of filthy cursings too;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And bitterness, yea, underneath their lips<br>The asp hath poison. O how many slips</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And falls in sin must such poor people have!<br>Now here's the holiness that should them save,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or, as a preparation, go before,<br>To move God to do for them less or more?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, grace must on thee righteousness bestow,<br>Or, else sin will for ever thee undo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet Paul this doctrine also doth express,<br>Where he saith, Some may have righteousness,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though works they have not; and it thus may stand,<br>Grace by the promise gives what the command</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Requireth us to do, and so are we<br>Quitted from doing, and by grace made free.</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 so sanctification possess

In body, soul, and spirit, then thou must
To Jesus fly, as one ungodly first;

And so by him crave pardon for thy sin
Which thou hast loved, and hast lived in;

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