John Bunyan

Love Inducin Christian Conduct

When understand my meaning by my words,
How sense of mercy unto faith affords
 
Both grace to sanctify, and holy make
That soul that of forgiveness doth partake.
 
Thus having briefly showed you what is
The way of life, or sanctity, of bliss,
 
I would not in conclusion have you think,
By what I say, that Christian men should drink
 
In these my words with lightness, or that they
Are now exempted from what every day
 
Their duty is. No, God doth still expect,
Yea, doth command, that they do not neglect
 
To pray, to read, to hear, and not dissent
From being sober, grave, and diligent
 
In watching, self-denial, and with fear
To serve him all the time thou livest here.
 
Indeed I have endeavoured to lay
Before your eyes the right and only way
 
Pardon to get, and also holiness,
Without which never think that God will bless
 
Thee with the kingdom he will give to those
That Christ embrace, and holy lives do choose
 
To live, while here all others go astray,
And shall in time to come be cast away.
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