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
But while I’m here thou shalt supply
His place, and tell me of His love;
I’ll read with faith’s discerning eye,
And thus partake of joys above.
_Kelly._
There is a _book_, who runs may read,
Which heavenly truth imparts,
And all the lore its scholars need
Pure eyes and Christian hearts.
The works of God above, below,
Within us, and around,
Are pages in that _book_, to show
How God Himself is found.
_Keble._
BOUNTY.
I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt _bountifully_ with
me.--Psalm xiii. 6.
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt _bountifully_
with thee.--Psalm cxvi. 7.
Being enriched in every thing to all _bountifulness_, which causeth
through us thanksgiving to God.--II. Corinthians, ix. 11.
This goodly frame of temperance,
Formerly grounded, and fast settled
On firm foundation of true _bountihood_.
_Spenser._
Those godlike men, to wanting virtue kind,
_Bounty_ well placed preferred, and well designed,
To all their titles.
_Dryden._
How full of cheer,
Joyous, devout, and grateful is the soul
To see again its unexhausted God
Thus pile the table of a world with bread!
For what’s the globe on which we all subsist?
The table of immortal _bounty_ ’tis,
A feast perpetual, where unnumbered sons
Sit down to banquet as their sires withdraw,
And in succession generations feed,
Contented rise, give thanks, and pass away.
_Hurdis._
The hand that built the palace of the sky,
Formed the light wings that decorate a fly;
The power that wheels the circling planets round,
Rears every infant floweret on the ground;
That _bounty_ which the mightiest beings share,
Feeds the least gnat that gilds the evening air.
_J. Montgomery._
I love the Lord;--he lent an ear
When I for help implored;
He rescued me from all my fear,
Therefore I love the Lord.
* * * * *
Return, my soul, unto my rest,
From God no longer roam;
His hand hath _bountifully_ blest,
His goodness called thee home.
_J. Montgomery._
BREAD.
Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain _bread_ from heaven
for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every
day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or
no.--Exodus, xvi. 4.
Man doth not live by _bread_ only, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.--Deuteronomy, viii. 3.
_Bread_ which strengtheneth man’s heart.--Psalm civ. 15.
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