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If faith produce no works; I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they e’er can know: They’re soul and body, hand and heart,— What God hath joined, let no man part.

If faith produce no works; I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they e’er can know: They’re soul and body, hand and heart,— What God hath joined, let no man part.

Approximate author period: c. 1789 AD · early modern

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Hannah More
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Approximate author period: c. 1789 AD · early modern
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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)

Page 684 · printed citation: Hannah More · subject: WORKS—WORK

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