<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537669" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Olney Hymn 12: Ephraim Repenting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My God, till I received Thy stroke, <br>How like a beast was I! <br>So unaccustom'd to the yoke, <br>So backward to comply. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With grief my just reproach I hear; <br>Shame fills me at the thought, <br>How frequent my rebellions were, <br>What wickedness I wrought. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thy merciful restraint I scorn'd, <br>And left the pleasant road; <br>Yet turn me, and I shall be turn'd; <br>Thou art the Lord my God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Is Ephraim banish'd from my thoughts, <br>Or vile in my esteem? <br>No,' saith the Lord, 'with all his faults, <br>I still remember him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Is he a dear and pleasant child? <br>Yes, dear and pleasant still; <br>Though sin his foolish heart beguiled, <br>And he withstood my will. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My sharp rebuke has laid him low, <br>He seeks my face again; <br>My pity kindles at his woe, <br>He shall not seek in vain.'</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=537669" data-title="Olney Hymn 12: Ephraim Repenting de William Cowper" data-description="My God, till I received Thy stroke, How like a beast was I! So unaccustom'd to the yoke, So backward to comply. With grief my just reproach I hear; Shame fills me at the thought, How frequent my rebellions were, What wickedness I wrought. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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