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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

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven _image_, or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth:

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord
thy God am a jealous God.--Exodus, xx. 4, 5.

As we have borne the _image_ of the earthy, we shall also bear the
_image_ of the heavenly.--I. Corinthians, xv. 49.


    For what had all this all, which man in one,
      Did not unite; the earth, air, water, fire,
    Life, sense, and spirit; nay, the pow’rful throne
      Of the Divinest Essence did retire;
      And his own _Image_ into clay inspire;
    So that this creature well might called be,
    Of the great world the small epitome;
    Of the dead world, the life, and small anatome.
                                     _Giles Fletcher._


    Thou man Thy _image_ mad’st, in dignity,
    In knowledge and in beauty like to Thee;
    Placed in a heaven on earth; without his toil,
    The ever flourishing and fruitful soil
    Unpurchased food produced; all creatures were
    His subjects, serving more for love than fear.
                                          _Sandys._


    He made us to His _image_ all agree;
    That _image_ is the soul, and that must be,
    Or not the Maker’s _image_, or be free.
                                       _Dryden._


    Outcasts of mortal race! can we conceive
    _Image_ of aught delightful, soft, or great.
                                         _Prior._


    Poor man! How happy once in thy first state!
    When yet but warm from thy great Maker’s hand,
    He stamped thee with His _image_, and well pleased,
    Smiled on his last fair work!
                                                _Blair._


    God spake: He look’d on earth and heaven
      With mild and generous eye;
    In his own _image_ man he made,
    And gave him dignity.
                                _Krummacher._




                             IMMORTALITY.


To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and
honour and _immortality_, eternal life.--Romans, ii. 7.

This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
_immortality_.--I. Corinthians, xv. 53.

Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought
life and _immortality_ to light through the gospel.--II. Timothy, i. 10.


    _Immortal_ honour, endless fame
    Attend the Almighty Father’s name.
                              _Dryden._

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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

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven _image_, or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth:

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord
thy God am a jealous God.--Exodus, xx. 4, 5.

As we have borne the _image_ of the earthy, we shall also bear the
_image_ of the heavenly.--I. Corinthians, xv. 49.


    For what had all this all, which man in one,
      Did not unite; the earth, air, water, fire,
    Life, sense, and spirit; nay, the pow’rful throne
      Of the Divinest Essence did retire;
      And his own _Image_ into clay inspire;
    So that this creature well might called be,
    Of the great world the small epitome;
    Of the dead world, the life, and small anatome.
                                     _Giles Fletcher._


    Thou man Thy _image_ mad’st, in dignity,
    In knowledge and in beauty like to Thee;
    Placed in a heaven on earth; without his toil,
    The ever flourishing and fruitful soil
    Unpurchased food produced; all creatures were
    His subjects, serving more for love than fear.
                                          _Sandys._


    He made us to His _image_ all agree;
    That _image_ is the soul, and that must be,
    Or not the Maker’s _image_, or be free.
                                       _Dryden._


    Outcasts of mortal race! can we conceive
    _Image_ of aught delightful, soft, or great.
                                         _Prior._


    Poor man! How happy once in thy first state!
    When yet but warm from thy great Maker’s hand,
    He stamped thee with His _image_, and well pleased,
    Smiled on his last fair work!
                                                _Blair._


    God spake: He look’d on earth and heaven
      With mild and generous eye;
    In his own _image_ man he made,
    And gave him dignity.
                                _Krummacher._




                             IMMORTALITY.


To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and
honour and _immortality_, eternal life.--Romans, ii. 7.

This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
_immortality_.--I. Corinthians, xv. 53.

Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought
life and _immortality_ to light through the gospel.--II. Timothy, i. 10.


    _Immortal_ honour, endless fame
    Attend the Almighty Father’s name.
                              _Dryden._

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

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