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Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Reforming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man.
Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Reforming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man.
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 135 · printed citation: Milton · subject: COMMAND—COMMANDMENT
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