<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421547" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Joseph Made Known To His Brethren</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Joseph his brethren beheld,<br>Afflicted and trembling with fear;<br>His heart with compassion was filled,<br>From weeping he could not forbear.<br>Awhile his behavior was rough,<br>To bring their past sin to their mind;<br>But when they were humbled enough,<br>He hasted to show himself kind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How little they thought it was he,<br>Whom they had ill treated and sold!<br>How great their confusion must be,<br>As soon as his name he had told!<br>I am Joseph, your brother, he said,<br>And still to my heart you are dear,<br>You sold me, and thought I was dead,<br>But God, for your sakes, sent me here. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though greatly distressed before,<br>When charged with purloining the cup;<br>They now were confounded much more,<br>Not one of them durst to look up.<br>Can Joseph, whom we would have slain.<br>Forgive us the evil we did?<br>And will he our households maintain?<br>O this is a brother indeed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus dragged by my conscience, I came,<br>And laden with guilt, to the Lord;<br>Surrounded with terror and shame,<br>Unable to utter a word.<br>At first he looked stern and revere,<br>What anguish then pierced my heart!<br>Expecting each moment to hear<br>The sentence, Thou cursed, depart! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But O! what surprise when he spoke,<br>While tenderness beamed in his face;<br>My heart then to pieces was broke,<br>O'erwhelmed and confounded by grace:<br>Poor sinner, I know thee full well,<br>By thee I was sold and was slain;<br>But I died to redeem thee from hell,<br>And raise thee in glory to reign. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am Jesus, whom thou hast blasphemed,<br>And crucified often afresh;<br>But let me henceforth be esteemed,<br>Thy brother, thy bone, and thy flesh:<br>My pardon I freely bestow,<br>Thy wants I will fully supply;<br>I'll guide thee and guard thee below,<br>And soon will remove thee on high. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go, publish to sinners around,<br>That they may be willing to come,<br>The mercy which now you have found,<br>And tell them that yet there is room.<br>O, sinners, the message obey!<br>No more vain excuses pretend;<br>But come, without farther delay,<br>To Jesus our brother and friend.</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=421547" data-title="Joseph Made Known To His Brethren de John Newton" data-description="When Joseph his brethren beheld, Afflicted and trembling with fear; His heart with compassion was filled, From weeping he could not forbear. Awhile his behavior was rough, To bring their past sin to their mind; But when they were humbled enough, H..."></div> </div> </div>

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