<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419140" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Uprightness and Sincerity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wouldst thou be very upright and sincere?<br>Wouldst thou be that within thou dost appear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or seem to be in outward exercise<br>Before the most devout, and godly wise?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, art thou thus when no eye doth thee see<br>But that which is invisible? and be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The words of God in truth thy prop and stay?<br>And do they in thy conscience bear more sway</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To govern thee in faith and holiness,<br>Than thou canst with thy heart and mouth express?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And do the things that truly are divine,<br>Before thee more than gold or rubies shine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if, as unto Solomon, God should<br>Propound to thee, What wouldst thou have? how would</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy heart and pulse beat after heav'nly things,<br>After the upper and the nether springs?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Couldst, with unfeigned heart and upright lip,<br>Cry, Hold me fast, Lord, never let me slip,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor step aside from faith and holiness,<br>Nor from the blessed hope of future bliss?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord, rather cross me anywhere than here;<br>Lord, fill me always with thy holy fear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And godly jealousy of mine own heart,<br>Lest I, Lord, should at any time depart</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From thy most blessed covenant of grace,<br>Where Jesus rules as King, and where thy face</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is only to be seen with comfort, and<br>Where sinners justified before thee stand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If these thy groanings be sincere and true,<br>If God doth count thee one that dost pursue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The things thou cryest after with thy heart,<br>No doubt but in them thou shalt have a part.</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=419140" data-title="Of Uprightness and Sincerity de John Bunyan" data-description="Wouldst thou be very upright and sincere? Wouldst thou be that within thou dost appear, Or seem to be in outward exercise Before the most devout, and godly wise? Yea, art thou thus when no eye doth thee see But that which is invisible? and be T..."></div> </div> </div>

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