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Now had the great Proclaimer, with a voice More awful than the sound of trumpet, cried Repentance, and Heaven’s kingdom nigh at hand To all baptized: to his great baptism flocked With awe, the regions round, and with them came From Nazareth, the Son of Joseph deemed, To the flood Jordan, came as then obscure, Unmarked, unknown: but him the Baptist soon Descried, divinely warned; and witness bore As to his worthier, and would have resigned To Him this heavenly office, nor was long His witness unconfirmed; on Him baptized Heaven opened, and in likeness of a dove The Spirit descended, while the Father’s voice From heaven pronounced Him His Beloved Son.
Now had the great Proclaimer, with a voice More awful than the sound of trumpet, cried Repentance, and Heaven’s kingdom nigh at hand To all baptized: to his great baptism flocked With awe, the regions round, and with them came From Nazareth, the Son of Joseph deemed, To the flood Jordan, came as then obscure, Unmarked, unknown: but him the Baptist soon Descried, divinely warned; and witness bore As to his worthier, and would have resigned To Him this heavenly office, nor was long His witness unconfirmed; on Him baptized Heaven opened, and in likeness of a dove The Spirit descended, while the Father’s voice From heaven pronounced Him His Beloved Son.
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 51 · printed citation: Milton · subject: BAPTIST, JOHN THE
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