<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Father Forgive Them</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father, forgive (the Saviour said)<br>They know not what they do:<br>His heart was moved when thus he prayed<br>For me, my friends, and you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He saw, that as the Jews abused<br>And crucified his flesh;<br>So he, by us, would be refused,<br>And crucified afresh. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through love of sin, we long were prone<br>To act as Satan bid;<br>But now, with grief and shame we own,<br>We knew not what we did. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We knew not the desert of sin,<br>Nor whom we thus defied;<br>Nor where our guilty souls had been,<br>If Jesus had not died. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We knew not what a law we broke,<br>How holy, just and pure!<br>Nor what a God we durst provoke,<br>But thought ourselves secure. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Jesus all our guilt foresaw,<br>And shed his precious blood<br>To satisfy the holy law,<br>And make our peace with God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My sin, dear Saviour, made thee bleed,<br>Yet didst thou pray for me!<br>I knew not what I did, indeed,<br>When ignorant of thee.</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=421535" data-title="Father Forgive Them de John Newton" data-description="Father, forgive (the Saviour said) They know not what they do: His heart was moved when thus he prayed For me, my friends, and you. He saw, that as the Jews abused And crucified his flesh; So he, by us, would be refused, And crucified afresh. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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