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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

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
      For even the _ears_ of such as have no skill,
    Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
      And knowing not what’s good, yet find the ill.
    And though this sense first gentle music sound,
      Her proper object is the speech of men;
    But that speech, chiefly, which God’s heralds sound,
      When their tongues utter what His spirit did pen.
                                       _Sir John Davies._


    As Thou hast touched our _ears_, and taught
      Our tongues to speak Thy praises plain,
    Quell Thou each thankless, godless thought
      That would make fast our bonds again.
    From worldly strife, from mirth unblest,
    Drowning Thy music in the breast,
    From foul reproach, from thrilling fears,
    Preserve, good Lord, Thy servants’ _ears_.

    From idle words that restless throng,
      And haunt our hearts when we would pray,
    From pride’s false chime, and jarring wrong,
      Seal Thou my lips, and guard the way:
    For thou hast sworn that every _ear_
    Willing, or loath, Thy trump shall _hear_,
    And every tongue unchained be,
    To own no hope, O God, but Thee.
                                        _Keble._




                                HEART.


The hypocrites in _heart_ heap up wrath.--Job, xxxvi. 13.

The _heart_ knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not
intermeddle with his joy.--Proverbs, xiv. 10.

The _heart_ is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who
can know it?--Jeremiah, xvii. 9.

A new _heart_ also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within
you: and I will take away the stony _heart_ out of your flesh, and I
will give you an _heart_ of flesh.--Ezekiel, xxxvi. 26.

Blessed are the pure in _heart_: for they shall see God.--Matthew, v. 8.

A good man, out of the good treasure of his _heart_, bringeth forth
that which is good; and an evil man, out of the evil treasure of his
_heart_, bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the
_heart_ his mouth speaketh.--Luke, vi. 45.

Hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our
_hearts_ by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.--Romans, v. 5.

With the _heart_ man believeth unto righteousness.--Romans, x. 10.

That Christ may dwell in your _hearts_ by faith.--Ephesians, iii. 17.


    I care not, so my kernel relish well,
    How slender be the substance of my shell;
    My _heart_ being virtuous, let my face be wan,
    I am to God, I only seem to man.
                                         _Quarles._


    So now the soul’s sublimed, her sour desires
    Are re-calcined in Heaven’s well-tempered fires;
    The _heart_ restored, and purged from drossy nature,
    Now finds the freedom of a new-born creature;
    It lives another life, it breathes new breath,
    It neither fears nor feels the sting of death.
                                               _Quarles._

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