{"id":5723,"date":"2010-10-09T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2010-10-09T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T21:20:00","slug":"the-wheat-and-the-tares-john-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2010\/10\/09\/the-wheat-and-the-tares-john-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wheat and the Tares &#8211; John Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Newton: The Wheat and the Tares<\/p>\n<p>Though in the outward church below<br \/>\nThe wheat and tares together grow;<br \/>\nJesus ere long will weed the crop,<br \/>\nAnd pluck the tares, in anger, up.<br \/>\nWill it relieve their horrors there,<br \/>\nTo recollect their stations here?<br \/>\nHow much they heard, how much they knew,<br \/>\nHow long amongst the wheat they grew!<br \/>\nO! this will aggravate their case!<br \/>\nThey perished under means of grace;<br \/>\nTo them the word of life and faith,<br \/>\nBecame an instrument of death.<br \/>\nWe seem alike when thus we meet,<br \/>\nStrangers might think we all are wheat;<br \/>\nBut to the Lord&#8217;s all-searching eyes,<br \/>\nEach heart appears without disguise.<br \/>\nThe tares are spared for various ends,<br \/>\nSome, for the sake of praying friends;<br \/>\nOthers, the LORD, against their will,<br \/>\nEmploys his counsels to fulfill.<br \/>\nBut though they grow so tall and strong,<br \/>\nHis plan will not require them long;<br \/>\nIn harvest, when he saves his own,<br \/>\nThe tares shall into hell be thrown.<\/p>\n<p>John Newton, Though in the Outward Church Below, Hymn 86 in Olney Hymns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Newton: The Wheat and the Tares Though in the outward church below The wheat and tares together grow; Jesus ere long will weed the crop, And pluck the tares, in anger, up. Will it relieve their horrors there, To recollect their stations here? How much they heard, how much they knew, How long amongst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}