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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419128" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Judgement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As 'tis appointed men should die,<br>So judgment is the next<br>That meets them most assuredly;<br>For so saith holy text.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherefore of judgment I shall now<br>Inform you what I may,<br>That you may see what 'tis, and how<br>'Twill be with men that day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This world it hath a time to stand,<br>Which time when ended, then<br>Will issue judgment out of hand<br>Upon all sorts of men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Judge we find, in God's record,<br>The Son of man, for he<br>By God's appointment is made Lord<br>And Judge of all that be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherefore this Son of man shall come<br>At last to count with all,<br>And unto them shall give just doom,<br>Whether they stand or fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold ye now the majesty<br>And state that shall attend<br>This Lord, this Judge, and Justice high<br>When he doth now descend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He comes with head as white as snow,<br>With eyes like flames of fire;<br>In justice clad from top to toe,<br>Most glorious in attire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His face is filled with gravity;<br>His tongue is like a sword;<br>His presence awes both stout and high,<br>The world shakes at his word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He comes in flaming fire, and<br>With angels clear and bright,<br>Each with a trumpet in his hand,<br>Clothed in shining white.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The trump of God sounds in the air,<br>The dead do hear his voice;<br>The living too run here and there,<br>Who made not him their choice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus to his place he doth repair,<br>Appointed for his throne,<br>Where he will sit to judge, and where<br>He'll count with every one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Angels attending on his hand<br>By thousands on a row;<br>Yea, thousand thousands by him stand,<br>And at his beck do go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus being set, the books do ope<br>In which all crimes are writ.<br>All virtues, too, of faith and hope,<br>Of love; and every whit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all that man hath done or said,<br>Or did intend to do;<br>Whether they sinn'd, or were afraid<br>Evil to come into.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before this bar each sinner now<br>In person must appear;<br>Under his judgment there to bow<br>With trembling and with fear:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within whose breast a witness then<br>Will certainly arise,<br>That to each charge will say Amen,<br>While they seek and devise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To shun the sentence which the Lord<br>Against them then will read,<br>Out of the books of God's record,<br>With majesty and dread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But every heart shall opened be<br>Before this judge most high;<br>Yea, every thought to judgment he<br>Will bring assuredly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And every word and action, too,<br>He there will manifest;<br>Yea, all that ever thou didst do,<br>Or keep within thy breast,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall then be seen and laid before<br>The world, that then will stand<br>To see thy judge open ev'ry sore,<br>And all thy evils scann'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weighing each sin and wickedness<br>With so much equity,<br>Proportioning of thy distress<br>And woful misery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With so much justice, doing right,<br>That thou thyself shalt say,<br>My sins have brought me to this plight,<br>I threw myself away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into that gulph my sins have brought<br>Me justly to possess,<br>For which I blame not Christ, I wrought<br>It out by wickedness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But O! how willingly would these<br>That thus in judgment be,<br>If that they might have help or ease,<br>Unto the mountains flee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would rejoice if that they might<br>But underneath them creep,<br>To hide them from revenging right,<br>For fear of which they weep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But all in vain, the mountains then<br>Will all be fled and gone;<br>No shelter will be found for men<br>That now are left alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For succour they did not regard<br>When Christ by grace did call<br>To them, therefore they are not heard,<br>No mountains on them fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before this Judge no one shall shroud<br>Himself, under pretence<br>Of knowledge, which hath made him proud,<br>Nor seeming penitence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No high profession here can stand,<br>Unless sincerity<br>Hath been therewith commixed, and<br>Brought forth simplicity.[7]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No mask nor vizor here can hide<br>The heart that rotten is;<br>All cloaks now must be laid aside,<br>No sinner must have bliss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though most approve of thee, and count<br>Thee upright in thy heart;<br>Yea, though preferred and made surmount<br>Most men to act thy part,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In treading where the godly trod,<br>As to an outward show;<br>Yet this hold still, the grace of God<br>Takes hold on but a few,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So as to make them truly such<br>As then shall stand before<br>This Judge with gladness; this is much<br>Yet true for evermore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tree of life this paradise<br>Doth always beautify,<br>'Cause of our health it is the rise<br>And perpetuity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here stands the golden throne of grace<br>From out of which do run<br>Those crystal streams that make this place<br>Far brighter than the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here stands mount Zion with her king.<br>Jerusalem above,<br>That holy and delightful thing,<br>So beautified with love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That, as a mother succours those<br>Which of her body be,<br>So she far more, all such as close<br>In with her Lord; and she</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her grace, her everlasting doors<br>Will open wide unto<br>Them all, with welcome, welcome, poor,<br>Rich, bond, free, high and low,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto the kingdom which our Lord<br>Appointed hath for all<br>That hath his name and word ador'd;<br>Because he did them call</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto that work, which also they<br>Sincerely did fulfil,<br>Not shunning always to obey<br>His gracious holy will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Besides, this much doth beautify<br>This goodly paradise,<br>That from all quarters, constantly,<br>Whole thousands as the price</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of precious blood, do here arrive;<br>As safe escaping all,<br>Sin, hell, and satan did contrive<br>To bring them into thrall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each telling his deliverance<br>I' th' open face of heaven;<br>Still calling to remembrance<br>How fiercely they were driven</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By deadly foe, who did pursue<br>As swift as eagles fly;<br>Which if thou have not, down thou must<br>With those that then shall die<br>The second death, and be accurs'd<br>Of God. For certainly,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The truth of grace shall only here<br>Without a blush be bold<br>To stand, whilst others quake and fear,<br>And dare not once behold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That heart that here was right for God<br>Shall there be comforted;<br>But those that evil ways have trod,<br>Shall then hang down the head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As sore confounded with the guilt<br>That now upon them lies, <br>Because they did delight in filth<br>And beastly vanities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or else because they did deceive<br>With hypocritical<br>Disguises, their own souls, and leave<br>Or shun that best of all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Approved word of righteousness,<br>They were invited to<br>Embrace, therefore they no access<br>Now to him have, but woe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For every one must now receive<br>According to their ways;<br>They that unto the Lord did cleave,<br>The everlasting joys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those that did die in wickedness,<br>To execution sent,<br>There still to grapple with distress,<br>Which nothing can prevent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of which two states I next shall write,<br>Wherefore I pray give ear,<br>And to them bend with all our might<br>Your heart with filial fear.</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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So judgment is the next
That meets them most assuredly;
For so saith holy text.

Wherefore of judgment I shall now
Inform you what I may,
That you may see what 'tis, and how
'Twill be with men that day.

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