Of Imputed Righteousness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EE FF GG HF IJ KK FF LM HH AN OO FF PP KK QQ RR ST UU VW XX IJ YY VW BA ZZ FF| Now if thou wouldst inherit righteousness | A |
| And so sanctification possess | B |
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| In body soul and spirit then thou must | C |
| To Jesus fly as one ungodly first | D |
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| And so by him crave pardon for thy sin | E |
| Which thou hast loved and hast lived in | E |
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| For this cannot at all forgiven be | F |
| For any righteousness that is in thee | F |
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| Because the best thou hast is filthy rags | G |
| Profane presumptuous and most beastly brags | G |
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| Of flesh and blood which always cross doth lie | H |
| To God to grace and thy felicity | F |
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| Then righteousness imputed thou must have | I |
| Thee from that guilt and punishment to save | J |
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| Thou liest under as a sinful man | K |
| Throughout polluted and that never can | K |
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| By any other means acquitted be | F |
| Or ever have true holiness in thee | F |
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| The reason is because all graces are | L |
| Only in Christ and be infused where | M |
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| Or into those whom he doth justify | H |
| By what himself hath done that he thereby | H |
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| Might be the whole of all that happiness | A |
| The sinner shall enjoy here and in bliss | N |
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| Besides if holiness should first be found | O |
| In those whom God doth pardon then the ground | O |
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| Why we forgiven are would seem to be | F |
| He first found holiness in thee and me | F |
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| But this the holy Scriptures will refute | P |
| And prove that righteousness he doth impute | P |
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| Without respect to goodness first in man | K |
| For to speak truth indeed no goodness can | K |
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| Be found in those that underneath the law | Q |
| Do stand for if God goodness in them saw | Q |
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| Why doth he once and twice say There is none | R |
| That righteous be no not so much as one | R |
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| None understandeth none seek after God | S |
| His ways they have not known but have abode | T |
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| In wickedness unprofitably they | U |
| Must needs appear to be then every way | U |
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| Their throats an open sepulchre also | V |
| Their mouths are full of filthy cursings too | W |
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| And bitterness yea underneath their lips | X |
| The asp hath poison O how many slips | X |
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| And falls in sin must such poor people have | I |
| Now here's the holiness that should them save | J |
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| Or as a preparation go before | Y |
| To move God to do for them less or more | Y |
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| No grace must on thee righteousness bestow | V |
| Or else sin will for ever thee undo | W |
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| Sweet Paul this doctrine also doth express | B |
| Where he saith Some may have righteousness | A |
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| Though works they have not and it thus may stand | Z |
| Grace by the promise gives what the command | Z |
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| Requireth us to do and so are we | F |
| Quitted from doing and by grace made free | F |
John Bunyan
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