<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421609" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Good That I Would I Do Not</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would, but cannot sing,<br>Guilt has untuned my voice;<br>The serpent sin's envenomed sting<br>Has poisoned all my joys. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know the Lord is nigh,<br>And would, but cannot, pray;<br>For Satan meets me when I try,<br>And frights my soul away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would but can't repent<br>Though I endeavor oft;<br>This stony heart can ne'er relent<br>Till Jesus make it soft. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would but cannot love,<br>Though wooed by love divine;<br>No arguments have pow'r to move<br>A soul so base as mine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would, but cannot rest<br>In God's most holy will;<br>I know what he appoints is best,<br>Yet murmur at it still! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh could I but believe!<br>Then all would easy be;<br>I would, but cannot, Lord relieve,<br>My help must come from thee! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if indeed I would,<br>Though I can nothing do,<br>Yet the desire is something good,<br>For which my praise is due. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By nature prone to ill,<br>Till thine appointed hour<br>I was as destitute of will,<br>As now I am of pow'r. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wilt thou not crown, at length,<br>The work thou hast begun?<br>And with a will, afford me strength<br>In all thy ways to run.</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=421609" data-title="The Good That I Would I Do Not de John Newton" data-description="I would, but cannot sing, Guilt has untuned my voice; The serpent sin's envenomed sting Has poisoned all my joys. I know the Lord is nigh, And would, but cannot, pray; For Satan meets me when I try, And frights my soul away. I would but can't ..."></div> </div> </div>

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