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O, how unsufferable is the weight Of sin! how miserable is their state, The silence of whose secret sin conceals The smart, till justice to revenge appeals! ***** Who loves to sin, in hell his portion’s given; Who dies to sin shall, after, live in heaven.
O, how unsufferable is the weight Of sin! how miserable is their state, The silence of whose secret sin conceals The smart, till justice to revenge appeals! ***** Who loves to sin, in hell his portion’s given; Who dies to sin shall, after, live in heaven.
Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
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- Francis Quarles
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- Approximate author period: c. 1618 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1592–1644)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 540 · printed citation: Quarles · subject: SIN
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