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
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
_free_.--John, viii. 32.
If the Son therefore shall make you _free_, ye shall be _free_
indeed.--John, viii. 36.
As _free_, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but
as the servants of God.--I. Peter, ii. 16.
_Freely_ we serve,
Because we _freely_ love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
_Milton._
Yet gave me in this dark estate
To see the good from ill,
And, binding Nature fast in fate,
Left _free_ the human will.
_Pope._
Placed for his trial on this bustling stage,
From thoughtless youth to ruminating age,
_Free_ in his will to choose or to refuse,
Man may improve the crisis, or abuse;
Else, on the fatalist’s unrighteous plan,
Say to what bar amenable were man?
With nought in charge he could betray no trust;
And if he fell, would fall because he must;
If Love reward him, or if Vengeance strike,
His recompense in both unjust alike.
_Cowper._
Grace leads the right way: if you choose the wrong,
Take it and perish, but restrain your tongue;
Charge not, with light sufficient, and left _free_,
Your wilful suicide on God’s decree.
_Cowper._
True _freedom_ is where no restraint is known
That scripture, justice, and good sense disown,
Where only vice and injury are tied,
And all from shore to shore is _free_ beside.
_Cowper._
Where had been
The test of faith if the expanded arm
Of Heaven, in glory and in power displayed,
Had curbed the _freedom_ of the human will,
Nor left the scope of choice!
_Samuel Hayes._
If, with streamy radiance, God
Had dazzling beamed upon His creatures’ eyelids,
And shown Himself to their unbandaged view,
And with a voice divine to us had spoken,
Destroying in our hearts the wondrous balance,
(Man ceasing to be man had lost his _freedom_,)
Our soul would not have struggled with our senses,
And void of _freedom_ what would virtue be?
_Pulling, from Lamartine._
For what is _freedom_, but the unfettered use
Of all the powers which God for use had given?
But chiefly this, Him first, Him last to view
Through meaner powers and secondary things
Effulgent, as through clouds that veil His blaze.
_Coleridge._
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