He that can play well on an instrument, <br />Will take the ear, and captivate the mind <br />With mirth or sadness; for that it is bent <br />Thereto, as music in it place doth find. <br />But if one hears that hath therein no skill, <br />(As often music lights of such a chance) <br />Of its brave notes they soon be weary will: <br />And there are some can neither sing nor dance. <br /> <br />Comparison. <br /> <br />Unto him that thus skilfully doth play, <br />God doth compare a gospel-minister, <br />That rightly preacheth, and doth godly pray, <br />Applying truly what doth thence infer. <br />This man, whether of wrath or grace he preach, <br />So skilfully doth handle every word; <br />And by his saying doth the heart so reach, <br />That it doth joy or sigh before the Lord. <br />But some there be, which, as the brute, doth lie <br />Under the Word, without the least advance <br />Godward; such do despise the ministry; <br />They weep not at it, neither to it dance.<br /><br />John Bunyan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/upon-the-skilfull-player-of-an-instrument/
