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From Sinai’s top Jehovah gave the law, Life for obedience, death for every flaw. When the great Sovereign would His will express, He gives a perfect rule, what can He less? And guards it with a sanction as severe As vengeance can inflict, or sinners fear: Else His own glorious rights He would disclaim, And man might safely trifle with His name.
From Sinai’s top Jehovah gave the law, Life for obedience, death for every flaw. When the great Sovereign would His will express, He gives a perfect rule, what can He less? And guards it with a sanction as severe As vengeance can inflict, or sinners fear: Else His own glorious rights He would disclaim, And man might safely trifle with His name.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- William Cowper
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 636 · printed citation: Cowper · subject: VENGEANCE
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