<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419174" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Upon The Skilfull Player Of An Instrument</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He that can play well on an instrument,<br>Will take the ear, and captivate the mind<br>With mirth or sadness; for that it is bent<br>Thereto, as music in it place doth find.<br>But if one hears that hath therein no skill,<br>(As often music lights of such a chance)<br>Of its brave notes they soon be weary will:<br>And there are some can neither sing nor dance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Comparison.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unto him that thus skilfully doth play,<br>God doth compare a gospel-minister,<br>That rightly preacheth, and doth godly pray,<br>Applying truly what doth thence infer.<br>This man, whether of wrath or grace he preach,<br>So skilfully doth handle every word;<br>And by his saying doth the heart so reach,<br>That it doth joy or sigh before the Lord.<br>But some there be, which, as the brute, doth lie<br>Under the Word, without the least advance<br>Godward; such do despise the ministry;<br>They weep not at it, neither to it dance.</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=419174" data-title="Upon The Skilfull Player Of An Instrument de John Bunyan" data-description="He that can play well on an instrument, Will take the ear, and captivate the mind With mirth or sadness; for that it is bent Thereto, as music in it place doth find. But if one hears that hath therein no skill, (As often music lights of such a cha..."></div> </div> </div>

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