Religion
Book II, 91: On a Water-Mill
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book II
Religion
The formall Christian's like a Water-mill:
Vntill the Floodgate's open, he lyes still:
He cannot work at all; he cannot dreame
Of going: till his wheeles shall finde the streame.
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