<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537843" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1793</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He lives who lives to God alone,<br>And all are dead beside;<br>For other source than God is none <br>Whence life can be supplied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To live to God is to requite<br>His love as best we may;<br>To make his precepts our delight,<br>His promises our stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But lite, within a narrow ring <br>Of giddy joys comprised,<br>Is falsely named, and no such thing,<br>But rather death disguised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can life in them deserve the name,<br>Who only live to prove<br>For what poor toys they can disclaim<br>An endless life above?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who, much diseased, yet nothing feel;<br>Much menaced, nothing dread;<br>Have wounds which only God can heal,<br>Yet never ask his aid?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who deem his house a useless place,<br>Faith, want of common sense;<br>And ardour in the Christian race,<br>A hypocrite's pretence?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who trample order; and the day <br>Which God asserts his own<br>Dishonour with unhallowed play,<br>And worship chance alone?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If scorn of God's commands, impressed <br>On word and deed, imply <br>The better part of man unblessed <br>With life that cannot die;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such want it, and that want, uncured <br>Till man resigns his breath,<br>Speaks him a criminal, assured <br>Of everlasting death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sad period to a pleasant course!<br>Yet so will God repay<br>Sabbaths profaned without remorse<br>And mercy cast away.</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=537843" data-title="Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1793" data-description="He lives who lives to God alone, And all are dead beside; For other source than God is none Whence life can be supplied. To live to God is to requite His love as best we may; To make his precepts our delight, His promises our stay. But lite, wi..."></div> </div> </div>

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