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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

FOUNDATION.


Of old hast thou laid the _foundation_ of the earth: and the heavens
are the work of thy hands.--Psalm cii. 25.

Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I lay in Zion for a _foundation_ a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure _foundation_: he
that believeth shall not make haste.--Isaiah, xxviii. 16.

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master
builder, I have laid the _foundation_, and another buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

For other _foundation_ can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ.--I. Corinthians, iii. 10, 11.


    Why build ye on the unsteady sand,
    A worthless house that cannot stand?
    Behold, in winter’s stormy day,
    That frail support will glide away,
    And rising billows lightly sweep
    Your fortress to the yawning deep.
    God hath a sure _foundation_ given,
    Fix’d as the firm decrees of heaven:
    The changeless, everlasting rock,
    That braves the storm, and bides the shock;
    There build: the gates of hell in vain
    Against that rock their war maintain.
    Christ is the rock, the corner stone,
    Faith rears her beauteous house thereon;
    Adorn’d with works of willing love,
    And pointing to the scenes above;
    Where faith and hope their sway resign,
    Swallow’d in sight and joy divine.
                          _Charlotte Elizabeth._


    I built my house upon a rock,
      (Faith’s strong _foundation_ firm and sure,)
    Fixed my abode, the heaviest shock
      Of time and tempest to endure.

    Nor small, nor large, nor low, nor high,
      Midway it stands upon the steep,
    Beneath the storm-mark of the sky,
      Above the flood-mark of the deep.

    And here I humbly wait, while He
      Who pluck’d me from the lowest hell,
    Prepares a heavenly house for me,
      And calls me hence with Him to dwell.
                                   _J. Montgomery._




                               FOUNTAIN.


How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of
men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

For with thee is the _fountain_ of life: in thy light shall we see
light.--Psalm xxxvi. 7, 9.

In that day there shall be a _fountain_ opened to the house
of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for
uncleanness.--Zechariah, xiii. 1.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give
unto him that is athirst of the _fountain_ of the water of life
freely.--Revelation, xxi. 6.


            He set before him spread
    A table of celestial food divine,
    Ambrosial fruits, fetched from the tree of life,
    And from the _fount_ of life ambrosial drink.
                                            _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

FOUNDATION.


Of old hast thou laid the _foundation_ of the earth: and the heavens
are the work of thy hands.--Psalm cii. 25.

Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I lay in Zion for a _foundation_ a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure _foundation_: he
that believeth shall not make haste.--Isaiah, xxviii. 16.

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master
builder, I have laid the _foundation_, and another buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

For other _foundation_ can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ.--I. Corinthians, iii. 10, 11.


    Why build ye on the unsteady sand,
    A worthless house that cannot stand?
    Behold, in winter’s stormy day,
    That frail support will glide away,
    And rising billows lightly sweep
    Your fortress to the yawning deep.
    God hath a sure _foundation_ given,
    Fix’d as the firm decrees of heaven:
    The changeless, everlasting rock,
    That braves the storm, and bides the shock;
    There build: the gates of hell in vain
    Against that rock their war maintain.
    Christ is the rock, the corner stone,
    Faith rears her beauteous house thereon;
    Adorn’d with works of willing love,
    And pointing to the scenes above;
    Where faith and hope their sway resign,
    Swallow’d in sight and joy divine.
                          _Charlotte Elizabeth._


    I built my house upon a rock,
      (Faith’s strong _foundation_ firm and sure,)
    Fixed my abode, the heaviest shock
      Of time and tempest to endure.

    Nor small, nor large, nor low, nor high,
      Midway it stands upon the steep,
    Beneath the storm-mark of the sky,
      Above the flood-mark of the deep.

    And here I humbly wait, while He
      Who pluck’d me from the lowest hell,
    Prepares a heavenly house for me,
      And calls me hence with Him to dwell.
                                   _J. Montgomery._




                               FOUNTAIN.


How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of
men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

For with thee is the _fountain_ of life: in thy light shall we see
light.--Psalm xxxvi. 7, 9.

In that day there shall be a _fountain_ opened to the house
of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for
uncleanness.--Zechariah, xiii. 1.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give
unto him that is athirst of the _fountain_ of the water of life
freely.--Revelation, xxi. 6.


            He set before him spread
    A table of celestial food divine,
    Ambrosial fruits, fetched from the tree of life,
    And from the _fount_ of life ambrosial drink.
                                            _Milton._

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

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