Tuesday, March 24, 2009

When Nations Are to Perish in Their Sins

An extract from Expostulation by William Cowper:

When nations are to perish in their sins,
‘Tis in the church the leprosy begins;

1 comment:

  1. The Bible says that judgment begins at the house of God (I Peter 4:17). Cowper certainly expressed that truth in a particularly literary fashion.

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