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’Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought, Do I love the Lord, or no? Am I his, or am I not? Could I joy his saints to meet, Choose the ways I once abhorred, Find at times the promise sweet, If I did not love the Lord?
’Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought, Do I love the Lord, or no? Am I his, or am I not? Could I joy his saints to meet, Choose the ways I once abhorred, Find at times the promise sweet, If I did not love the Lord?
Approximate author period: c. 1684 AD · renaissance
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- Isaac Newton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1684 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 3 · printed citation: Newton · subject: ABHORRENCE
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