We limit not the truth of God
We limit not the truth of God. George Rawson* (1807-1889).
First published in Psalms, Hymns, and passages of Scripture for Christian Worship (1853), the ‘Leeds Hymn Book’, in five 8-line stanzas, with a preface containing an account by Edward Winslow of the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Leiden for America in 1620. Winslow, later Governor of the colony at Plymouth in Massachusetts, described John Robinson, pastor of the separatist chapel at Leiden, as preaching a farewell sermon to the pilgrims:
He charged us before God, and His blessed angels, if God should reveal anything tTo break forth from His word.o us by any other instrument of His, to be as ready to receive it as any truth...
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