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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

Hail, Sovereign Lord! by all Thy works confess’d!
    By angels worship’d, and by saints address’d!
    Hail, Sovereign Lord! _mysterious_ Wisdom! hail;
    In whom the Father and His fulness dwell.
    In whom the Godhead and the man unite,
    Stamp of His form, and glory of His light!
    In whom complete, in Thee completed shine,
    The God incarnate, and the man divine.
    _Mysterious_ truth! withheld from reason’s eye;
    Outcast on earth! but loftiest on high!
    Hail, wondrous cross!--yet how more wondrous He
    That cross who bore!--Thyself its _mystery_!--
    And borne for man!--a greater _mystery_ still;
    So great Thy love, and love’s _mysterious_ will!
                                           _Peronnet._


    That things to mortals are _mysterious_,
    Is not because the things themselves are dark,
    But the perceptions through which they are viewed.
                                         _David Bates._




                                 NAME.


Thou shalt not take the _name_ of the Lord thy God in vain.--Exodus,
xx. 7.

Blessed be the _name_ of the Lord from this time forth and for
evermore.--Psalm cxiii. 2.

A good _name_ is rather to be chosen than great riches.--Proverbs,
xxii. 1.

God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above
every _name_.

That at the _name_ of Jesus every knee should bow.--Philippians, ii. 9,
10.


    We wish our _names_ eternally to live.
    Wild dream! which ne’er had haunted human thought,
    Had not our natures been eternal too.
    Instinct points out an interest in hereafter,
    But our blind reason sees not where it lies;
    Or seeing, gives the substance for the shade.
                                               _Young._


    In the fair book of life and grace,
      O may I find my _name_
    Recorded in some humble place,
      Beneath my Lord the Lamb.
                                _Watts._


    I read His awful _name_ emblazoned high,
    With golden letters, on the illumined sky;
    Nor less the mystic characters I see
    Wrought in each flower, inscribed on every tree:
    In every leaf that trembles to the breeze,
    I hear the voice of God among the trees.
                                     _Mrs. Barbauld._


                        Wide he extends
    His royalties, and still the throne adorns
    With piety and mercy. Loved and feared.
    Twice twenty years, with equitable hand,
    He sways the sceptre; then in peace repose
    His ashes, but his _name_ lives evermore.
                               _Charles Hoyle._


    O blessed Father, righteous Lord!
    Within Thy book of life record
      My undeserving _name_;
    Teach me to know and do Thy will;
    My heart with holy longings fill,
      And heavenly love inflame.
                              _Bayly._

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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

Hail, Sovereign Lord! by all Thy works confess’d!
    By angels worship’d, and by saints address’d!
    Hail, Sovereign Lord! _mysterious_ Wisdom! hail;
    In whom the Father and His fulness dwell.
    In whom the Godhead and the man unite,
    Stamp of His form, and glory of His light!
    In whom complete, in Thee completed shine,
    The God incarnate, and the man divine.
    _Mysterious_ truth! withheld from reason’s eye;
    Outcast on earth! but loftiest on high!
    Hail, wondrous cross!--yet how more wondrous He
    That cross who bore!--Thyself its _mystery_!--
    And borne for man!--a greater _mystery_ still;
    So great Thy love, and love’s _mysterious_ will!
                                           _Peronnet._


    That things to mortals are _mysterious_,
    Is not because the things themselves are dark,
    But the perceptions through which they are viewed.
                                         _David Bates._




                                 NAME.


Thou shalt not take the _name_ of the Lord thy God in vain.--Exodus,
xx. 7.

Blessed be the _name_ of the Lord from this time forth and for
evermore.--Psalm cxiii. 2.

A good _name_ is rather to be chosen than great riches.--Proverbs,
xxii. 1.

God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above
every _name_.

That at the _name_ of Jesus every knee should bow.--Philippians, ii. 9,
10.


    We wish our _names_ eternally to live.
    Wild dream! which ne’er had haunted human thought,
    Had not our natures been eternal too.
    Instinct points out an interest in hereafter,
    But our blind reason sees not where it lies;
    Or seeing, gives the substance for the shade.
                                               _Young._


    In the fair book of life and grace,
      O may I find my _name_
    Recorded in some humble place,
      Beneath my Lord the Lamb.
                                _Watts._


    I read His awful _name_ emblazoned high,
    With golden letters, on the illumined sky;
    Nor less the mystic characters I see
    Wrought in each flower, inscribed on every tree:
    In every leaf that trembles to the breeze,
    I hear the voice of God among the trees.
                                     _Mrs. Barbauld._


                        Wide he extends
    His royalties, and still the throne adorns
    With piety and mercy. Loved and feared.
    Twice twenty years, with equitable hand,
    He sways the sceptre; then in peace repose
    His ashes, but his _name_ lives evermore.
                               _Charles Hoyle._


    O blessed Father, righteous Lord!
    Within Thy book of life record
      My undeserving _name_;
    Teach me to know and do Thy will;
    My heart with holy longings fill,
      And heavenly love inflame.
                              _Bayly._

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

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