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Him God the Most High, vouchsafed To call by vision, from his father’s house, His kindred, and false gods, into a land Which he did show him, and from him did raise A mighty nation; and upon him shower His benedictions so, that in his seed All nations shall be blest; he straight obeyed, Not knowing to what land, yet firm believed: He left his gods, his friends, and native soil, Ur of Chaldea, passing now the ford To Haran; after him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and numerous servitude, Not wandering poor, but trusting all his wealth To God, who called him, in a land unknown.
Him God the Most High, vouchsafed To call by vision, from his father’s house, His kindred, and false gods, into a land Which he did show him, and from him did raise A mighty nation; and upon him shower His benedictions so, that in his seed All nations shall be blest; he straight obeyed, Not knowing to what land, yet firm believed: He left his gods, his friends, and native soil, Ur of Chaldea, passing now the ford To Haran; after him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and numerous servitude, Not wandering poor, but trusting all his wealth To God, who called him, in a land unknown.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 7 · printed citation: Milton · subject: ABRAHAM
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