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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419129" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Love To God</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I do this begin to apprehend,<br>My heart, my soul, and mind, begins to bend</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To God-ward, and sincerely for to love<br>His son, his ways, his people, and to move</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With brokenness of spirit after him<br>Who broken was, and killed for my sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now is mine heart grown holy, now it cleaves<br>To Jesus Christ my Lord, and now it leaves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those ways that wicked be; it mourns because<br>It can conform no more unto the laws</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of God, who loved me when I was vile,<br>And of sweet Jesus, who did reconcile</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me unto justice by his precious blood,<br>When no way else was left to do me good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you would know how this can operate<br>Thus on the soul, I shall to you relate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A little farther what my soul hath seen<br>Since I have with the Lord acquainted been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The word of grace, when it doth rightly seize<br>The spirit of a man, and so at ease</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doth set the soul, the Spirit of the Lord<br>Doth then with might accompany the word;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In which it sets forth Christ as crucified,<br>And by that means the Father pacified</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With such a wretch was thou, and by this sight,<br>Thy guilt is in the first place put to flight,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For thus the Spirit doth expostulate:<br>Behold how God doth now communicate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(By changing of the person) grace to thee<br>A sinner, but to Christ great misery,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though he the just one was, and so could not<br>Deserve this punishment; behold, then, what</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The love of God is! how 'tis manifest,<br>And where the reason lies that thou art blest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This doctrine being spoken to the heart,<br>Which also is made yield to every part</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thereof, it doth the same with sweetness fill,<br>And so doth sins and wickednesses kill;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when the love of God is thus reveal'd,<br>And thy poor drooping spirit thereby seal'd,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when thy heart, as dry ground, drinks this in<br>Unto the roots thereof, which nourish sin,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It smites them, as the worm did Jonah's gourd,<br>And makes them dwindle of their own accord,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And die away; instead of which there springs<br>Up life and love, and other holy things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Besides, the Holy Spirit now is come,<br>And takes possession of thee as its home;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By which a war maintained always is<br>Against the old man and the deeds of his.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God at first upon mount Sinai spake,<br>He made his very servant Moses quake;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he heard the law the second time,<br>His heart was comforted, his face did shine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What was the reason of this difference,<br>Seeing no change was in the ordinance,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although a change was in the manner, when<br>The second time he gave it unto men?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At first 'twas given in severity,<br>In thunder, blackness, darkness, tempest high,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fiery flames it was delivered.<br>This struck both Moses and the host as dead;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Moses, when he went into the mount<br>The second time, upon the same account</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No fear, nor dread, nor shaking of his mind,<br>Do we in all the holy Scripture find;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But rather in his spirit he had rest,<br>And look'd upon himself as greatly blest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was put in the rock, he heard the name,<br>Which on the mount the Lord did thus proclaim:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lord, merciful, gracious, and more,<br>Long-suffering, and keeping up in store</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mercy for thousands, pardoning these things,<br>Iniquity, transgressions, and sins,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And holding guilty none but such as still<br>Refuse forgiveness, of rebellious will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This proclamation better pleased him<br>Than all the thunder and the light'ning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which shook the mount, this rid him of his fear,<br>This made him bend, make haste, and worship there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jehoshaphat, when he was sore opprest<br>By Amnon and by Moab, and the rest</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of them that sought his life, no rest he found,<br>Until a word of faith became a ground</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To stay himself upon; O, then they fell,<br>His very song became their passing-bell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then holiness of heart a consequence<br>Of faith in Christ is, for it flows from thence;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The love of Christ in truth constraineth us,<br>Of love sincerely to make judgment thus:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He for us died that for ever we<br>Might die to sin, and Christ his servants be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O! nothing's like to the remembrance<br>Of what it is to have deliverance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From death and hell, which is of due our right,<br>Nothing, I say, like this to work delight</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In holy things; this like live honey runs,<br>And needs no pressing out of honey-combs.</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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My heart, my soul, and mind, begins to bend

To God-ward, and sincerely for to love
His son, his ways, his people, and to move

With brokenness of spirit after him
Who broken was, and killed for my sin.

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