Religion
Acts 17:14: True love will readily give place
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)
True love will readily give place,
True wisdom counts it no disgrace
From violent rage to fly;
To fly, and spare the guilt of those
Who truth maliciously oppose
And fight with the Most-High.
Our persecuting foes to shun
From city we to city run,
Yet still 'tis all our aim
Our suffering Master to confess,
And Christ the universal Peace
Throughout the world proclaim.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts 17:14: True love will readily give place.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6528/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts 17:14: True love will readily give place.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6528/.
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