Of Love To God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC DE FF GG HH IJ KK LE MM NO PP QQ QQ RR QQ QQ QQ SS QQ EE QQ TT UV WW XX YZ A2A2 B2B2 RC2 QQ QQ QQ QQ D2D2 E2E2 TF2 SS DG2 H2I2 QQ QQ J2J2 A2K2 L2L2 RR A2A2 QQ M2N2| When I do this begin to apprehend | A |
| My heart my soul and mind begins to bend | A |
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| To God ward and sincerely for to love | B |
| His son his ways his people and to move | C |
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| With brokenness of spirit after him | D |
| Who broken was and killed for my sin | E |
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| Now is mine heart grown holy now it cleaves | F |
| To Jesus Christ my Lord and now it leaves | F |
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| Those ways that wicked be it mourns because | G |
| It can conform no more unto the laws | G |
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| Of God who loved me when I was vile | H |
| And of sweet Jesus who did reconcile | H |
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| Me unto justice by his precious blood | I |
| When no way else was left to do me good | J |
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| If you would know how this can operate | K |
| Thus on the soul I shall to you relate | K |
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| A little farther what my soul hath seen | L |
| Since I have with the Lord acquainted been | E |
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| The word of grace when it doth rightly seize | M |
| The spirit of a man and so at ease | M |
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| Doth set the soul the Spirit of the Lord | N |
| Doth then with might accompany the word | O |
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| In which it sets forth Christ as crucified | P |
| And by that means the Father pacified | P |
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| With such a wretch was thou and by this sight | Q |
| Thy guilt is in the first place put to flight | Q |
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| For thus the Spirit doth expostulate | Q |
| Behold how God doth now communicate | Q |
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| By changing of the person grace to thee | R |
| A sinner but to Christ great misery | R |
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| Though he the just one was and so could not | Q |
| Deserve this punishment behold then what | Q |
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| The love of God is how 'tis manifest | Q |
| And where the reason lies that thou art blest | Q |
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| This doctrine being spoken to the heart | Q |
| Which also is made yield to every part | Q |
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| Thereof it doth the same with sweetness fill | S |
| And so doth sins and wickednesses kill | S |
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| For when the love of God is thus reveal'd | Q |
| And thy poor drooping spirit thereby seal'd | Q |
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| And when thy heart as dry ground drinks this in | E |
| Unto the roots thereof which nourish sin | E |
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| It smites them as the worm did Jonah's gourd | Q |
| And makes them dwindle of their own accord | Q |
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| And die away instead of which there springs | T |
| Up life and love and other holy things | T |
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| Besides the Holy Spirit now is come | U |
| And takes possession of thee as its home | V |
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| By which a war maintained always is | W |
| Against the old man and the deeds of his | W |
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| When God at first upon mount Sinai spake | X |
| He made his very servant Moses quake | X |
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| But when he heard the law the second time | Y |
| His heart was comforted his face did shine | Z |
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| What was the reason of this difference | A2 |
| Seeing no change was in the ordinance | A2 |
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| Although a change was in the manner when | B2 |
| The second time he gave it unto men | B2 |
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| At first 'twas given in severity | R |
| In thunder blackness darkness tempest high | C2 |
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| In fiery flames it was delivered | Q |
| This struck both Moses and the host as dead | Q |
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| But Moses when he went into the mount | Q |
| The second time upon the same account | Q |
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| No fear nor dread nor shaking of his mind | Q |
| Do we in all the holy Scripture find | Q |
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| But rather in his spirit he had rest | Q |
| And look'd upon himself as greatly blest | Q |
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| He was put in the rock he heard the name | D2 |
| Which on the mount the Lord did thus proclaim | D2 |
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| The Lord merciful gracious and more | E2 |
| Long suffering and keeping up in store | E2 |
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| Mercy for thousands pardoning these things | T |
| Iniquity transgressions and sins | F2 |
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| And holding guilty none but such as still | S |
| Refuse forgiveness of rebellious will | S |
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| This proclamation better pleased him | D |
| Than all the thunder and the light'ning | G2 |
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| Which shook the mount this rid him of his fear | H2 |
| This made him bend make haste and worship there | I2 |
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| Jehoshaphat when he was sore opprest | Q |
| By Amnon and by Moab and the rest | Q |
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| Of them that sought his life no rest he found | Q |
| Until a word of faith became a ground | Q |
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| To stay himself upon O then they fell | J2 |
| His very song became their passing bell | J2 |
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| Then holiness of heart a consequence | A2 |
| Of faith in Christ is for it flows from thence | K2 |
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| The love of Christ in truth constraineth us | L2 |
| Of love sincerely to make judgment thus | L2 |
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| He for us died that for ever we | R |
| Might die to sin and Christ his servants be | R |
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| O nothing's like to the remembrance | A2 |
| Of what it is to have deliverance | A2 |
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| From death and hell which is of due our right | Q |
| Nothing I say like this to work delight | Q |
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| In holy things this like live honey runs | M2 |
| And needs no pressing out of honey combs | N2 |
John Bunyan
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