Horatius bonar poems and quotes
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Horatius Bonar and His Hymns
HORATIUS BONAR
AND HIS HYMNS
Horatius Bonar was born on December 19,, in Edinburgh, and, like his brothers, was educated at the High School and University of that city. He had not a mathematical turn of mind, but early in life showed a great liking for English literature and the ancient classics. At school he was fortunate enough to be under masters who grounded him thoroughly in these latter subjects. The only relic of his school-work which I possess is a wonderfully accurate prose translation of the Philoctetes of Sophocles, written bygd him in his thirteenth year. It is impossible to tell when he first began to write verse, but some pieces of his have been preserved in a Students' Magazine, The College Observer, of which he seems to have been one of the editors. The first of these poems appeared in November , at'which date the writer was not quite nineteen years of age. The titles of a few of these may give some indication of their natu
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Upon A Life I Have Not Lived
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Sunday we sang the Indelible Grace version of &#;Upon a Life I Have Not Lived.&#; The original version was written bygd Horatius Bonar in as a communion hymn. The entire poem, containing a number of additional stanzas, is below. You can see the complete volume of his richly theological communion hymns at this link.
On merit not my own I stand;
On doings which I have not done,
Merit beyond what inom can claim,
Doings more perfect than my own.
Upon a life I have not lived,
Upon a death I did not die,
Another&#;s life, Another&#;s death,
I stake my whole eternity.
Not on the tears which inom have shed:
Not on the sorrows I have known,
Another&#;s tears, Another&#;s griefs,
On them I rest, on them alone.
Jesus, O Son of God, inom build
On what Thy cross has done for me;
There both my death and life I read,
My guilt, my pardon there I see.
Lord, inom believe; oh deal with me
As one who has Thy word believed!
I take the
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Horatius Bonar > Quotes
“For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.”
&#; Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness
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“It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.”
&#; Horatius Bonar, Words to Winners of Souls
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“Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.”
&#; Horatius