“Paradise Lost,” John Milton As quoted in Primitive Christianity

“All deprav’d,

Justice and temp’rance, truth and faith forgot,

One man except, the only son of light

In a dark age, against example, good;

Against allurement custom, and the world

Offended; fearless of reproach and scorn.

Or violence, be of their wicked ways

Shall them admonish, and before them set

The paths of righteousness, how much more safe,

And full of peace, denouncing wrath to some

On their impenitence; and shall return

Of them derided, but of God obsery’d.”

From “Paradise Lost,” by John Milton

As quoted in Primitive Christianity Chapter 3, by William Penn