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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

Sweet rest ye, happie _Christians_,
    ’Tis earlie _Christmas_ daye,
    When _Christ_ our Lord and Savioure
    Became the sinner’s staye.
    Arise, and for such benefits
    His precepts all obeye.
    Joyful tidings let us singe,
    _Christ_ our refuge, _Christ_ our kinge,
    To hallowe _Christmas_ daye.

    In Judah’s lands, in Bethlehem,
    The lovelie babe was born,
    Upon a manger poorlie laid,
    On _Christmas_ happie morn.
    God speed ye, merrie gentlemen,
    And _Christian_ grace adorn.
    Joyful tidings let us singe,
    _Christ_ our refuge, _Christ_ our kinge,
    To hallowe _Christmas_ morn.
                        _Stuart Farquharson._


    Hark! what mean those holy voices,
      Sweetly sounding through the skies?
    Lo! the angelic host rejoices;
      Heavenly hallelujahs rise.
    Listen to the wondrous story,
      Which they chant in hymns of joy:--
    “Glory in the highest, glory!
      Glory be to God most high!
    _Christ_ is born, the Great Anointed,
      Heaven and earth His praises sing;
    O receive whom God appointed,
      For your Prophet, Priest, and King!”
                                  _Cawood._




                             CHRISTIANITY.


And the disciples were called _Christians_ first in Antioch.--Acts, xi.
26.

Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free.--Galatians, v. 1.

Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.--Ephesians, iv. 1.

Yet if any man suffer as a _christian_, let him not be ashamed; but let
him glorify God on this behalf.--I. Peter, iv. 16.


    But for that contention and brave strife
    The _Christian_ hath to enjoy, the future life,
    He were the wretchedest of the race of men;
    But as he soars at that, he bruiseth then
    The serpent’s head; gets above death and sin,
    And, sure of Heaven, rides triumphing in.
                                       _Ben Jonson._


    All faiths beside, or did by arms ascend;
    Or sense indulged has made mankind their friend:
    This only doctrine does our lusts oppose;
    Unfed by nature’s soil in which it grows;
    Cross to our interests, curbing sense and sin;
    Oppressed without and undermined within,
    It thrives through pain, its own tormentors tires;
    And with a stubborn patience still aspires.
    To what can reason such effects assign,
    Transcending nature, but to laws divine,
    Which in that sacred volume are contained,
    Sufficient, clear, and for that use ordained?
                                              _Dryden._


                    Well hast thou fought
    The better fight, who, singly, hast maintained
    Against revolted multitudes the cause
    Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms;
    And for the testimony of truth hast borne
    Universal reproach, far worse to bear
    Than violence.
                                          _Milton._

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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

Sweet rest ye, happie _Christians_,
    ’Tis earlie _Christmas_ daye,
    When _Christ_ our Lord and Savioure
    Became the sinner’s staye.
    Arise, and for such benefits
    His precepts all obeye.
    Joyful tidings let us singe,
    _Christ_ our refuge, _Christ_ our kinge,
    To hallowe _Christmas_ daye.

    In Judah’s lands, in Bethlehem,
    The lovelie babe was born,
    Upon a manger poorlie laid,
    On _Christmas_ happie morn.
    God speed ye, merrie gentlemen,
    And _Christian_ grace adorn.
    Joyful tidings let us singe,
    _Christ_ our refuge, _Christ_ our kinge,
    To hallowe _Christmas_ morn.
                        _Stuart Farquharson._


    Hark! what mean those holy voices,
      Sweetly sounding through the skies?
    Lo! the angelic host rejoices;
      Heavenly hallelujahs rise.
    Listen to the wondrous story,
      Which they chant in hymns of joy:--
    “Glory in the highest, glory!
      Glory be to God most high!
    _Christ_ is born, the Great Anointed,
      Heaven and earth His praises sing;
    O receive whom God appointed,
      For your Prophet, Priest, and King!”
                                  _Cawood._




                             CHRISTIANITY.


And the disciples were called _Christians_ first in Antioch.--Acts, xi.
26.

Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us
free.--Galatians, v. 1.

Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.--Ephesians, iv. 1.

Yet if any man suffer as a _christian_, let him not be ashamed; but let
him glorify God on this behalf.--I. Peter, iv. 16.


    But for that contention and brave strife
    The _Christian_ hath to enjoy, the future life,
    He were the wretchedest of the race of men;
    But as he soars at that, he bruiseth then
    The serpent’s head; gets above death and sin,
    And, sure of Heaven, rides triumphing in.
                                       _Ben Jonson._


    All faiths beside, or did by arms ascend;
    Or sense indulged has made mankind their friend:
    This only doctrine does our lusts oppose;
    Unfed by nature’s soil in which it grows;
    Cross to our interests, curbing sense and sin;
    Oppressed without and undermined within,
    It thrives through pain, its own tormentors tires;
    And with a stubborn patience still aspires.
    To what can reason such effects assign,
    Transcending nature, but to laws divine,
    Which in that sacred volume are contained,
    Sufficient, clear, and for that use ordained?
                                              _Dryden._


                    Well hast thou fought
    The better fight, who, singly, hast maintained
    Against revolted multitudes the cause
    Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms;
    And for the testimony of truth hast borne
    Universal reproach, far worse to bear
    Than violence.
                                          _Milton._

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

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