KING.
The Lord is King for ever and ever.—Psalm x. 16.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.—Psalm xxiv. 9, 10.
The King that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.—Proverbs, xxix. 14.
Fear God. Honour the King.—I. Peter, ii. 17.
The king-becoming graces
Are justice, verity, temperance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude.
Shakspere.
O take heed, sir,
Saints stand upon heaven’s silver battlements,
When kings make vows, and lay their listening ears
To princes’ protestations.
R. Davenport.
The silver trumpet’s heavenly call
Sounds for the poor, but sounds alike for all;
Kings are invited, and, would kings obey,
No slaves on earth more welcome were than they;
But royalty, nobility, and state,
Are such a dead preponderating weight,
That endless bliss, how strange soe’er it seem,
In counterpoise flies up, and kicks the beam.
Cowper.
There’s not a leaf within the bower;
There’s not a bird upon the tree;
There’s not a dew-drop on the flower;
But leaves the impress Lord of Thee.
Thy hand the varied leaf designed,
And gave the bird its thrilling tone;
Thy power the dew-drop’s tints combined,
Till like the diamond’s blaze they shone.
Yes, dew-drops, leaves, and buds, and all,
The smallest, like the greatest things;
The sea’s vast space, the earth’s wide hall,
Alike proclaim Thee King of Kings.
Mrs. Opie.