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When because faith is in too low degree, I thought it some apostleship in me, To speak things which by faith alone I see.

When because faith is in too low degree, I thought it some apostleship in me, To speak things which by faith alone I see.

Approximate author period: c. 1602 AD · renaissance

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Dr. John Donne
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Approximate author period: c. 1602 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1573–1631)
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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)

Page 33 · printed citation: Donne · subject: APOSTLES

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