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Revealed religion first informed thy sight, And Reason saw not till Faith sprung to light. Hence all thy natural worship takes the source: ’Tis Revelation, what thou think’st discourse, Else how com’st thou to see those truths so clear, Which so obscure to heathens did appear.
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, And Reason saw not till Faith sprung to light. Hence all thy natural worship takes the source: ’Tis Revelation, what thou think’st discourse, Else how com’st thou to see those truths so clear, Which so obscure to heathens did appear.
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 500 · printed citation: Dryden · subject: REVELATION
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