<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421526" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cain And Abel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Adam fell he quickly lost<br>God's image, which he once possessed:<br>See All our nature since could boast<br>In Cain, his first-born Son, expressed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sacrifice the Lord ordained<br>In type of the Redeemer's blood,<br>Self-righteous reas'ning Cain disdained,<br>And thought his own first-fruits as good. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet rage and envy filled his mind,<br>When, with a fallen, downcast look,<br>He saw his brother favor find,<br>Who God's appointed method took. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By Cain's own hand, good Abel died,<br>Because the Lord approved his faith;<br>And, when his blood for vengeance cried,<br>He vainly thought to hide his death. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such was the wicked murd'rer Cain,<br>And such by nature still are we,<br>Until by grace we're born again,<br>Malicious, blind and proud, as he. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like him the way of grace we slight,<br>And in our own devices trust;<br>Call evil good, and darkness light,<br>And hate and persecute the just. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The saints, in every age and place,<br>Have found this history fulfilled;<br>The numbers all our thoughts surpass<br>Of Abels, whom the Cains have killed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus Jesus fell - but O! his blood<br>Far better things than Abel's cries:<br>Obtains his murd'rers peace with God,<br>And gains them mansions in the skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</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=421526" data-title="Cain And Abel de John Newton" data-description="When Adam fell he quickly lost God's image, which he once possessed: See All our nature since could boast In Cain, his first-born Son, expressed! The sacrifice the Lord ordained In type of the Redeemer's blood, Self-righteous reas'ning Cain disd..."></div> </div> </div>

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