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Look humbly upward, see His will disclose The forfeit first, and then the fine impose; A mulct thy poverty could never pay, Had not eternal wisdom found the way, And with celestial wealth supplied thy store; His justice makes the fine, His mercy quits the score. See God descending in the human frame; The offended suffering in the offender’s name: All thy misdeeds to Him imputed see, And all his righteousness devolved on thee.
Look humbly upward, see His will disclose The forfeit first, and then the fine impose; A mulct thy poverty could never pay, Had not eternal wisdom found the way, And with celestial wealth supplied thy store; His justice makes the fine, His mercy quits the score. See God descending in the human frame; The offended suffering in the offender’s name: All thy misdeeds to Him imputed see, And all his righteousness devolved on thee.
Approximate author period: c. 1666 AD · renaissance
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- John Dryden
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- Approximate author period: c. 1666 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 41 · printed citation: Dryden · subject: ATONEMENT
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