<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421533" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esau</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor Esau repented too late<br>That once he his birth-right despised;<br>And sold, for a morsel of meat,<br>What could not too highly be prized:<br>How great was his anguish when told,<br>The blessing he sought to obtain,<br>Was gone with the birth-right he sold,<br>And none could recall it again! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stands as a warning to all,<br>Wherever the gospel shall come;<br>O Hasten and yield to the call,<br>While yet for repentance there's room!<br>Your season will quickly be past,<br>Then hear and obey it today;<br>Lest when you seek mercy at last,<br>The Saviour should frown you away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is it the world can propose?<br>A morsel of meat at the best!<br>For this are you willing to lose<br>A share in the joys of the blest?<br>Its pleasures will speedily end,<br>Its favor and praise are but breath;<br>And what can its profits befriend<br>Your soul in the moment of death? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If Jesus for these you despise,<br>And sin to the Saviour prefer;<br>In vain your entreaties and cries,<br>When summoned to stand at his bar:<br>How will you his presence abide?<br>What anguish will torture your heart?<br>The saints all enthroned by his side,<br>And you be compelled to depart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too often, dear Saviour, have I<br>Preferred some poor trifle to thee;<br>How is it thou dost not deny<br>The blessing and birth-right to me?<br>No better than Esau I am,<br>Though pardon and heav'n be mine;<br>To me belongs nothing but shame,<br>The praise and the glory be thine.</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=421533" data-title="Esau de John Newton" data-description="Poor Esau repented too late That once he his birth-right despised; And sold, for a morsel of meat, What could not too highly be prized: How great was his anguish when told, The blessing he sought to obtain, Was gone with the birth-right he sold, A..."></div> </div> </div>

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