Religion

Book IV, 68: On our JESVS

by Francis Quarles 1592–1644

From Divine Fancies (1633), Book IV

Religion

Hee's like a Rock, which when we strive to shun
We are in danger to be wreckt upon;
But when our wide-spred Armes seek Refuge there,
It will secure us from the harmes we feare.

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