Author: John Bunyan
Source: A Book for Boys and Girls
Though water hath a softening virtue in’t,
This stone it can’t dissolve, for it’s a flint.
Yea, though it in the water doth remain,
It doth its fiery nature still retain.
If you oppose it with its opposite,
At you, yea, in your face, its fire ’twill spit.
This flint, time out of mind, has there abode,
Where crystal streams make their continual road;
Yet it abides a flint as much as e’er
Before it touched the water, or came there.
Its hard obdurateness is not abated;
’Tis not at all by water penetrated.
Comparison:
This flint an emblem is of those that lie like stones, under the Word until they die.
Its crystal streams have not their nature changed—
They are not, from their lusts, by grace estranged.
Sizzling Sunday: 14th January 2024
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