<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537641" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Living and a Dead Faith</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lord receives his highest praise <br>From humble minds and hearts sincere; <br>While all the loud professor says <br>Offends the righteous Judge's ear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To walk as children of the day, <br>To mark the precepts' holy light, <br>To wage the warfare, watch, and pray, <br>Show who are pleasing in His sight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not words alone it cost the Lord, <br>To purchase pardon for His own; <br>Nor will a soul by grace restored <br>Return the Saviour words alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With golden bells, the priestly vest, <br>And rich pomegranates border'd round, <br>The need of holiness expressed, <br>And called for fruit as well as sound. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Easy indeed it were to reach <br>A mansion in the courts above, <br>If swelling words and fluent speech <br>Might serve instead of faith and love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But none shall gain the blissful place, <br>Or God's unclouded glory see, <br>Who talks of free and sovereign grace, <br>Unless that grace has made him free!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537641" data-title="Living and a Dead Faith de William Cowper" data-description="The Lord receives his highest praise From humble minds and hearts sincere; While all the loud professor says Offends the righteous Judge's ear. To walk as children of the day, To mark the precepts' holy light, To wage the warfare, watch, an..."></div> </div> </div>

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