<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421619" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Little Book</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the beloved disciple took<br>The angels' little open book,<br>Which by the Lord's command he eat,<br>It tasted bitter after sweet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus when the gospel is embraced,<br>At first 'tis sweeter to the taste<br>Than honey, or the honey-comb,<br>But there's a bitterness to come. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What sweetness does the promise yield,<br>When by the Spirit's power sealed?<br>The longing soul is filled with good,<br>Nor feels a wish for other food. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By these inviting tastes allured,<br>We pass to what must be endured;<br>For soon we find it is decreed,<br>That bitter must to sweet succeed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When sin revives and shows its pow'r.<br>When Satan threatens to devour,<br>When God afflicts and men revile,<br>We drag our steps with pain and toil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thus deserted, tempest-tossed,<br>The sense of former sweetness lost;<br>We tremble lest we were deceived<br>In thinking that we once believed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lord first makes the sweetness known,<br>To win and fix us far his own;<br>And though we now some bitter meet,<br>We hope for everlasting sweet.</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=421619" data-title="The Little Book de John Newton" data-description="When the beloved disciple took The angels' little open book, Which by the Lord's command he eat, It tasted bitter after sweet. Thus when the gospel is embraced, At first 'tis sweeter to the taste Than honey, or the honey-comb, But there's a bitt..."></div> </div> </div>

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