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A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Religion

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Quotations; Religious poetry

O prophet of glad tidings! _finisher_
    Of utmost hope.
                                    _Milton._


    Though here you all perfection should not find,
    Yet it is all the Eternal will designed;
    It is a _finished_ work, and perfect in its kind.
                                          _Blackmore._


    Hark! the voice of love and mercy
      Sounds aloud from Calvary!
    See! it rends the rocks asunder,
      Shakes the earth and veils the sky!
            “It is _finished_!”
      Hear the dying Saviour cry!

    “It is _finished_!”--O what pleasure
      Do those charming words afford!
    Heavenly blessings without measure
      Flow to us from Christ the Lord:
            “It is _finished_!”--
      Saints the dying words record.

    _Finished_ all the types and shadows
      Of the ceremonial law!
    _Finished_ all that God had promised;
      Death and hell no more shall awe:
            “It is _finished_!”--
      Saints from hence their comfort draw.

    Happy souls, approach the table,
      Taste the soul-reviving food;
    Nothing’s half so sweet and pleasant
      As the Saviour’s flesh and blood:
            “It is _finished_!”--
      Christ has borne the heavy load.
                               _J. Evans._




                                FLOOD.


And the _flood_ was forty days upon the earth.--Genesis, vii. 17.

The Lord sitteth upon the _flood_: yea the Lord sitteth King for
ever.--Psalm xxix. 10.

For as in the days that were before the _flood_ they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,

And knew not until the _flood_ came, and took them all away; so shall
also the coming of the Son of Man be.--Matthew, xxiv. 38, 39.

By faith _Noah_, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved
with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by
faith.--Hebrews, xi. 7.

God spared not the old world, but saved _Noah_, the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the _flood_ upon the world of
the ungodly.--II. Peter, ii. 5.


                      He preached
    Conversion and repentance, as to souls
    In prison under dangers imminent:
    But all in vain, which, when he saw, he ceased
    Contending, and removed his tents far off,
    Then from the mountain hewing timbers tall,
    Began to build a vessel of huge bulk.
                                          _Milton._

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Religion

A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

Quotations; Religious poetry

O prophet of glad tidings! _finisher_
    Of utmost hope.
                                    _Milton._


    Though here you all perfection should not find,
    Yet it is all the Eternal will designed;
    It is a _finished_ work, and perfect in its kind.
                                          _Blackmore._


    Hark! the voice of love and mercy
      Sounds aloud from Calvary!
    See! it rends the rocks asunder,
      Shakes the earth and veils the sky!
            “It is _finished_!”
      Hear the dying Saviour cry!

    “It is _finished_!”--O what pleasure
      Do those charming words afford!
    Heavenly blessings without measure
      Flow to us from Christ the Lord:
            “It is _finished_!”--
      Saints the dying words record.

    _Finished_ all the types and shadows
      Of the ceremonial law!
    _Finished_ all that God had promised;
      Death and hell no more shall awe:
            “It is _finished_!”--
      Saints from hence their comfort draw.

    Happy souls, approach the table,
      Taste the soul-reviving food;
    Nothing’s half so sweet and pleasant
      As the Saviour’s flesh and blood:
            “It is _finished_!”--
      Christ has borne the heavy load.
                               _J. Evans._




                                FLOOD.


And the _flood_ was forty days upon the earth.--Genesis, vii. 17.

The Lord sitteth upon the _flood_: yea the Lord sitteth King for
ever.--Psalm xxix. 10.

For as in the days that were before the _flood_ they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark,

And knew not until the _flood_ came, and took them all away; so shall
also the coming of the Son of Man be.--Matthew, xxiv. 38, 39.

By faith _Noah_, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved
with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by
faith.--Hebrews, xi. 7.

God spared not the old world, but saved _Noah_, the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the _flood_ upon the world of
the ungodly.--II. Peter, ii. 5.


                      He preached
    Conversion and repentance, as to souls
    In prison under dangers imminent:
    But all in vain, which, when he saw, he ceased
    Contending, and removed his tents far off,
    Then from the mountain hewing timbers tall,
    Began to build a vessel of huge bulk.
                                          _Milton._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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