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Legions of angels, which He might have used, For us resolved to perish, He refused; While they stood ready to prevent His loss, Love took Him up, and nailed Him to the cross. Immortal love! which in His bowels reigned, That we might be by such high love constrained To make return of love; upon this pole Our duty does, and our religion roll. To love is to believe, to hope, to know; ’Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below. He to proud potentates would not be known; Of those who loved Him, He was hid from none.
Legions of angels, which He might have used, For us resolved to perish, He refused; While they stood ready to prevent His loss, Love took Him up, and nailed Him to the cross. Immortal love! which in His bowels reigned, That we might be by such high love constrained To make return of love; upon this pole Our duty does, and our religion roll. To love is to believe, to hope, to know; ’Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below. He to proud potentates would not be known; Of those who loved Him, He was hid from none.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Waller (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 366 · printed citation: Waller · subject: LOVE
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