A Word To The Calvinists Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGHG IJKL MCMC NLNL OGOG PLPL QRQS TUTU VOVO WQWQ| You may rejoice to think yourselves secure | A |
| You may be grateful for the gift divine | B |
| That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure | A |
| And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine | B |
| But is it sweet to look around and view | C |
| Thousands excluded from that happiness | D |
| Which they deserve at least as much as you | C |
| Their faults not greater nor their virtues less | E |
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| And wherefore should you love your God the more | F |
| Because to you alone his smiles are given | G |
| Because He chose to pass the many o'er | H |
| And only bring the favoured few to Heaven | G |
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| And wherefore should your hearts more grateful prove | I |
| Because for all the Saviour did not die | J |
| Is yours the God of justice and of love | K |
| And are your bosoms warm with charity | L |
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| Say does your heart expand to all mankind | M |
| And would you ever to your neighbour do | C |
| The weak the strong the enlightened and the blind | M |
| As you would have your neighbour do to you | C |
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| And when you looking on your fellow men | N |
| Behold them doomed to endless misery | L |
| How can you talk of joy and rapture then | N |
| May God withhold such cruel joy from me | L |
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| That none deserve eternal bliss I know | O |
| Unmerited the grace in mercy given | G |
| But none shall sink to everlasting woe | O |
| That have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven | G |
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| And O there lives within my heart | P |
| A hope long nursed by me | L |
| And should its cheering ray depart | P |
| How dark my soul would be | L |
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| That as in Adam all have died | Q |
| In Christ shall all men live | R |
| And ever round his throne abide | Q |
| Eternal praise to give | S |
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| That even the wicked shall at last | T |
| Be fitted for the skies | U |
| And when their dreadful doom is past | T |
| To life and light arise | U |
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| I ask not how remote the day | V |
| Nor what the sinner's woe | O |
| Before their dross is purged away | V |
| Enough for me to know | O |
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| That when the cup of wrath is drained | W |
| The metal purified | Q |
| They'll cling to what they once disdained | W |
| And live by Him that died | Q |
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