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“It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Commentaries. Jeremiah vii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 078bfc3fffec20ba76bc1de2391d4260e7fb90da69d59ab857e791c6e14d52ee
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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