<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421542" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Humbled And Silenced By Mercy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once perishing in blood I lay,<br>Creatures no help could give,<br>But Jesus passed me in the way,<br>He saw, and bid me live. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though Satan still his rule maintained,<br>And all his arts employed;<br>That mighty Word his rage restrained,<br>I could not be destroyed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length the time of love arrived<br>When I my Lord should know,<br>Then Satan, of his pow'r deprived,<br>Was forced to let me go. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O can I e'er that day forget<br>When Jesus kindly spoke!<br>Poor soul, my blood has paid thy debt,<br>And now I break thy yoke. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Henceforth I take thee for my own,<br>And give myself to thee;<br>Forsake the idols thou hast known,<br>And yield thyself to me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, worthless heart! it promised fair,<br>And said it would be thine;<br>I little thought it e'er would dare<br>Again with idols join. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord, dost thou such backslidings heal,<br>And pardon all that's past?<br>Sure, if I am not made of steel,<br>Thou hast prevailed at last. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My tongue, which rashly spoke before,<br>This mercy will restrain;<br>Surely I now shall boast no more,<br>Nor censure, nor complain.</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=421542" data-title="Humbled And Silenced By Mercy de John Newton" data-description="Once perishing in blood I lay, Creatures no help could give, But Jesus passed me in the way, He saw, and bid me live. Though Satan still his rule maintained, And all his arts employed; That mighty Word his rage restrained, I could not be destroy..."></div> </div> </div>

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