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If bliss had lien in art or strength, None but the wise and strong had gained it; Where now, by faith, all arms are of a length; One size doth all conditions fit. A peasant may believe as much As a great clerk, and reach the highest stature; Thus dost thou make proud knowledge bend and crouch, While grace fills up uneven nature. Faith makes me any thing, or all That I believe is in the sacred story; And when sin placeth me in Adam’s fall, Faith sets me higher in his glory.
If bliss had lien in art or strength, None but the wise and strong had gained it; Where now, by faith, all arms are of a length; One size doth all conditions fit. A peasant may believe as much As a great clerk, and reach the highest stature; Thus dost thou make proud knowledge bend and crouch, While grace fills up uneven nature. Faith makes me any thing, or all That I believe is in the sacred story; And when sin placeth me in Adam’s fall, Faith sets me higher in his glory.
Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- George Herbert
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- Approximate author period: c. 1612 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 209 · printed citation: George Herbert · subject: FAITH
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