Religion
Book III, 56: On Prayer
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book III
Religion
Prayre's like a Vapour fum'd from earth; that flyes
To th' Gates of Heav'n: It never rotts ith' Skyes:
If Faith and it be joyn'd, it will obtaine,
And melt into a first and later Raine;
If Faith forsake her, and they part in sunder,
It falls in Thunderbolts; at least, in Thunder.
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