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 apprehendA
My heart my soul and mind begins to bendA
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To God ward and sincerely for to loveB
His son his ways his people and to moveC
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With brokenness of spirit after himD
Who broken was and killed for my sinE
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Now is mine heart grown holy now it cleavesF
To Jesus Christ my Lord and now it leavesF
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Those ways that wicked be it mourns becauseG
It can conform no more unto the lawsG
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Of God who loved me when I was vileH
And of sweet Jesus who did reconcileH
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Me unto justice by his precious bloodI
When no way else was left to do me goodJ
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If you would know how this can operateK
Thus on the soul I shall to you relateK
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A little farther what my soul hath seenL
Since I have with the Lord acquainted beenE
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The word of grace when it doth rightly seizeM
The spirit of a man and so at easeM
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Doth set the soul the Spirit of the LordN
Doth then with might accompany the wordO
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In which it sets forth Christ as crucifiedP
And by that means the Father pacifiedP
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With such a wretch was thou and by this sightQ
Thy guilt is in the first place put to flightQ
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For thus the Spirit doth expostulateQ
Behold how God doth now communicateQ
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By changing of the person grace to theeR
A sinner but to Christ great miseryR
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Though he the just one was and so could notQ
Deserve this punishment behold then whatQ
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The love of God is how 'tis manifestQ
And where the reason lies that thou art blestQ
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This doctrine being spoken to the heartQ
Which also is made yield to every partQ
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Thereof it doth the same with sweetness fillS
And so doth sins and wickednesses killS
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For when the love of God is thus reveal'dQ
And thy poor drooping spirit thereby seal'dQ
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And when thy heart as dry ground drinks this inE
Unto the roots thereof which nourish sinE
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It smites them as the worm did Jonah's gourdQ
And makes them dwindle of their own accordQ
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And die away instead of which there springsT
Up life and love and other holy thingsT
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Besides the Holy Spirit now is comeU
And takes possession of thee as its homeV
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By which a war maintained always isW
Against the old man and the deeds of hisW
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When God at first upon mount Sinai spakeX
He made his very servant Moses quakeX
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But when he heard the law the second timeY
His heart was comforted his face did shineZ
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What was the reason of this differenceA2
Seeing no change was in the ordinanceA2
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Although a change was in the manner whenB2
The second time he gave it unto menB2
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At first 'twas given in severityR
In thunder blackness darkness tempest highC2
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In fiery flames it was deliveredQ
This struck both Moses and the host as deadQ
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But Moses when he went into the mountQ
The second time upon the same accountQ
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No fear nor dread nor shaking of his mindQ
Do we in all the holy Scripture findQ
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But rather in his spirit he had restQ
And look'd upon himself as greatly blestQ
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He was put in the rock he heard the nameD2
Which on the mount the Lord did thus proclaimD2
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The Lord merciful gracious and moreE2
Long suffering and keeping up in storeE2
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Mercy for thousands pardoning these thingsT
Iniquity transgressions and sinsF2
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And holding guilty none but such as stillS
Refuse forgiveness of rebellious willS
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This proclamation better pleased himD
Than all the thunder and the light'ningG2
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Which shook the mount this rid him of his fearH2
This made him bend make haste and worship thereI2
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Jehoshaphat when he was sore opprestQ
By Amnon and by Moab and the restQ
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Of them that sought his life no rest he foundQ
Until a word of faith became a groundQ
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To stay himself upon O then they fellJ2
His very song became their passing bellJ2
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Then holiness of heart a consequenceA2
Of faith in Christ is for it flows from thenceK2
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The love of Christ in truth constraineth usL2
Of love sincerely to make judgment thusL2
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He for us died that for ever weR
Might die to sin and Christ his servants beR
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O nothing's like to the remembranceA2
Of what it is to have deliveranceA2
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From death and hell which is of due our rightQ
Nothing I say like this to work delightQ
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In holy things this like live honey runsM2
And needs no pressing out of honey combsN2

John Bunyan



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