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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

They eat
    Their daily bread, and draw the breath of Heaven
    Without or thought or thanks; Heaven’s roof, to them,
    Is but a painted ceiling hung with lamps,
    No more, that lights them to their purposes.
    They wander loose about; they nothing see,
    Themselves except, and creatures like themselves,
    Short-lived, short-sighted, impotent to save.
    So on their dissolute spirits, soon or late,
    Destruction cometh, like an armed man,
    Or like a dream of murder in the night,
    Withering their mortal faculties, and breaking
    The bones of all their pride.
                                           _Charles Lamb._


    No God! Who warms the heart to heave
      With thousand feelings, soft and sweet,
    And prompts the aspiring soul to leave
      The earth we tread beneath our feet,
      And soar away on pinions fleet,
    Beyond the scene of mortal strife,
      With fair ethereal forms to meet,
    That tell us of an after life?
                               _William Knox._


    “There is no God,” the foolish saith--
      But none, “there is no sorrow:”
    And Nature oft the cry of Faith
      In bitter need will borrow.
    Eyes which the preacher could not school,
      By way-side graves are raised;
    And lips say “God be pitiful,”
      That ne’er said, “God be praised.”
                               _Miss Barrett._


    An _Atheist’s_ laugh’s a poor exchange,
        For Deity offended.
                                    _Burns._




                              ATONEMENT.


As he hath done this day, so the Lord hath commanded to do, to make an
_atonement_ for you.--Leviticus, viii. 34.

Wherewith shall I make the _atonement_, that ye may bless the
inheritance of the Lord?--II. Samuel, xxi. 3.

We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now
received the _atonement_.--Romans, v. 11.

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are
past.--Romans, iii. 25.

He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but for the
sins of the whole world.--I. John, ii. 2.

Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we
being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye
were healed.--I. Peter, ii. 24.


                    So Man, as is most just,
    Shall satisfy for man, be judged and die,
    And dying, rise, and rising, with Him raise
    His brethren, ransomed with His own dear life.

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                            Nor can this be,
    But by fulfilling that which Thou didst want,
    Obedience to the law of God, imposed
    On penalty of death, and suffering death,
    The penalty to Thy transgression due:
    So only can high justice rest appaid.
                                          _Milton._

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