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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=544299" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Advice To Believe In Christ</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BELIEVE in Christ, for thy Protector cry,<br>God offers him to all, both far and nigh,<br>Receive the gracious offer, and don't fail;<br>Or else, thou shalt the loss of him bewail. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man, who Christ with heart sincere receives,<br>And with a lively faith in him believes,<br>Christ will on him his saving grace bestow,<br>To live like the blest saints, whilst here below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Christ shall to him his holy Spirit give,<br>That he, new-born, may a new creature live;<br>Christ shall quite change, and mould the man anew,<br>From a rash rebel to a subject true. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He gives his grace, our gloomy minds to light -<br>He gives his Word, to make us walk aright -<br>To rule us, he his holy Spirit grants -<br>He gives himself, to make up all our wants -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So that no soul in Christ can well believe,<br>Who shall not grace and strength from him receive,<br>To emulate the conduct of the just ; <br>If right his faith, and confident his trust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The grace of God, and a supernal pow'r,<br>Faith plucks from heav'n - to make a man give o'er,<br>And thoroughly abhor, his evil ways,<br>And lead a life of virtue all his days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unless thy faith extorts this grace divine,<br>And makes the renovated creature shine,<br>It is in vain;- it answers to no end,<br>Unless it serves thy errors to amend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A lively faith does grace from Christ attract,<br>And strength to put thy theory in act : <br>All its old sins it utterly forsakes,<br>And of th' whole man a renovation makes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Howe'er corrupt the nature that's in thee -<br>However weak thy intellects may be -<br>Believe in Christ, invoke his holy name,<br>And, when he pleases, he can change the same. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although the Jailer was a sinful soul - <br>Thou Paul was, once, as sinful, on the whole -<br>And though Manasses was still worse agen -<br>Yet they, thro' Christ, were made quite diff'rent men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So can he make of thee, thou sinful soul!<br>Although by nature reprobate and foul,<br>A perfect saint - if thou in him wilt place<br>Thy trust - thereby to get his aid and grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Christ, that great persecutor Paul, reform'd,<br>And to a glorious preacher soon transform'd;<br>The woman too, of bad report and fame, <br>From a mere raven, a white dove became. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Believe in Christ with heart sincerely true,<br>And he'll thy mind and manners form anew -<br>Christians he'll make out a fiend-like race,<br>And of the foe of God, a child of grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Presume not, then, that thy belief is right,<br>If Christ thy nature has not alter'd quite : <br>For Christ a total change of manners gives<br>To each, that faithfully in him believes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold Zaccheus, Magdalene, and Paul!<br>You soon shall see that Christ will change them all:<br>Their morals all at once are strictly just,<br>As soon as they in Jesus place their trust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tho', in the morning, Saul did all he cou'd,<br>Like a fierce wolf, to shed the Christian's blood;<br>Yet, soon as he believ'd, this wolf became,<br>By noon that very day, a perfect lamb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before Zaccheus was a Christian made,<br>To rob the needy, was his daily trade;<br>But, when he once believ'd, he gave the poor<br>The greatest part of what he gain'd before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though Magdalene was once a reprobate,<br>And sinn'd, e'er she believ'd at any rate,<br>Yet afterwards a virtuous life she led,<br>And was declared a saint, when she was dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So shalt thou ev'ry vicious habit leave,<br>When thou shalt once unto thy Saviour cleave:<br>For, 'till there is this reformation wrought,<br>Thy faith can only a mere whim be thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faith, unaccompany'd by works, is dead -<br>A formless faith - a trunk without a head -<br>A faith, that blinds - a false, fallacious faith -<br>A faith, that leads the ready way to death!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no fire, without attending heat -<br>There is no water - but it must be wet -<br>There's no good vine - but is with clusters crown'd;<br>No lively faith, without its fruits is found!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shou'd any one affirm, that he believes,<br>And yet repents not - he himself deceives: <br>His faith is nought, but froth - or, at the most,<br>All his belief is but an idle boast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no true believer can do less <br>Than mend his morals, and his lusts suppress;<br>Because that Christ to all believers gives<br>His holy Spirit, to amend their lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be not deceiv'd, thou sinner most obscene,<br>Where there is faith, there holy lives are seen:<br>For if thy faith is worthy to be known,<br>By its good works let it be plainly shown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If in thy faith there does no life appear,<br>If it no grace, in word and work, does bear,<br>'Tis but the name of faith upon the whole - <br>A faith, that never can preserve thy soul!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rees+Prichard">Rees Prichard</a><div class=q>
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God offers him to all, both far and nigh,
Receive the gracious offer, and don't fail;
Or else, thou shalt the loss of him bewail. 

The man, who Christ with heart sincere receives,
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