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