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Oppress’d with guilt, a painful load, O come, and spread your woes abroad! Divine compassion, mighty love, Will all the painful load remove. Here mercy’s boundless ocean flows To cleanse your guilt, and heal your woes; Pardon, and life, and endless peace; How rich the gift! how free the grace!
Oppress’d with guilt, a painful load, O come, and spread your woes abroad! Divine compassion, mighty love, Will all the painful load remove. Here mercy’s boundless ocean flows To cleanse your guilt, and heal your woes; Pardon, and life, and endless peace; How rich the gift! how free the grace!
Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
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- Sir Richard Steele
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- Approximate author period: c. 1700 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1671–1729)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 274 · printed citation: Steele · subject: GUILT
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