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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

From essences unseen, celestial names,
    Enlight’ning spirits and _ministerial_ flames,
    Lift we our reason to that Sovereign Cause,
    Who blessed the whole with life.
                                           _Prior._


    God gives us _ministers_ of love,
      Which we regard not, being near;
    Death takes them from us, then we feel
      That angels have been with us here!

    As mother, sister, friend, or wife,
      They guide us, cheer us, soothe our pain;
    And when the grave has closed between
      Our heart and theirs, we love--in vain.
                                      _Aldrich._


    Oh, thou who once on earth, beneath the weight
      Of our mortality did’st live and move,
      The incarnation of profoundest love;
    Who, on the Cross, that love didst consumate,--
      Whose deep and ample fulness could embrace
      The poorest, meanest of our fallen race!
    How shall we e’er that boundless debt repay?--
      By long, loud prayers in gorgeous temples said?
      By rich oblations on thine altars laid?--
    Ah no! not thus thou didst appoint the way.
      When thou wast bowed our human woe beneath,
      Then as a legacy thou didst bequeath
    Earth’s sorrowing children to our _ministry_;
    And as we do to them, we do to thee.
                                      _Anne C. Lynch._




                               MIRACLES.


After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea
of Tiberias.

And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his _miracles_
which he did on them that were diseased.--John, vi. 1, 2.

Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you, by _miracles_, and
wonders, and signs.--Acts, ii. 22.

And God wrought special _miracles_ by the hands of Paul.

So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or
aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went
out of them.--Acts, xix. 11, 12.

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with
divers _miracles_.--Hebrews, ii. 4.


    O, what a scale of _miracles_ is here--
    Its lowest round high planted in the skies;
    Its towering summit lost, beyond the thought
    Of man or angel.
                                         _Young._


    A _miracle_, with _miracles_ enclosed,
    Is man; and starts his faith at what is strange?
    What less than wonders from the Wonderful;
    What less than _miracles_, from God can flow?
    Admit a God--that mystery supreme,
    That Cause uncaused, all other wonders cease.
                                             _Young._

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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

From essences unseen, celestial names,
    Enlight’ning spirits and _ministerial_ flames,
    Lift we our reason to that Sovereign Cause,
    Who blessed the whole with life.
                                           _Prior._


    God gives us _ministers_ of love,
      Which we regard not, being near;
    Death takes them from us, then we feel
      That angels have been with us here!

    As mother, sister, friend, or wife,
      They guide us, cheer us, soothe our pain;
    And when the grave has closed between
      Our heart and theirs, we love--in vain.
                                      _Aldrich._


    Oh, thou who once on earth, beneath the weight
      Of our mortality did’st live and move,
      The incarnation of profoundest love;
    Who, on the Cross, that love didst consumate,--
      Whose deep and ample fulness could embrace
      The poorest, meanest of our fallen race!
    How shall we e’er that boundless debt repay?--
      By long, loud prayers in gorgeous temples said?
      By rich oblations on thine altars laid?--
    Ah no! not thus thou didst appoint the way.
      When thou wast bowed our human woe beneath,
      Then as a legacy thou didst bequeath
    Earth’s sorrowing children to our _ministry_;
    And as we do to them, we do to thee.
                                      _Anne C. Lynch._




                               MIRACLES.


After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea
of Tiberias.

And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his _miracles_
which he did on them that were diseased.--John, vi. 1, 2.

Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you, by _miracles_, and
wonders, and signs.--Acts, ii. 22.

And God wrought special _miracles_ by the hands of Paul.

So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or
aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went
out of them.--Acts, xix. 11, 12.

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with
divers _miracles_.--Hebrews, ii. 4.


    O, what a scale of _miracles_ is here--
    Its lowest round high planted in the skies;
    Its towering summit lost, beyond the thought
    Of man or angel.
                                         _Young._


    A _miracle_, with _miracles_ enclosed,
    Is man; and starts his faith at what is strange?
    What less than wonders from the Wonderful;
    What less than _miracles_, from God can flow?
    Admit a God--that mystery supreme,
    That Cause uncaused, all other wonders cease.
                                             _Young._

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

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