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.

by Unknown

LAW.

And the Lord said unto Moses, come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law.—Exodus, xxiv. 12.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.—Psalm i. 1, 2.

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.—Matthew, v. 17, 18.

The good need fear no law;

It is his safety, and the bad man’s awe.

Massinger.

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter;

For there are reciprocities of right which no creature can gainsay.

Unto each was there added by its Maker, in the perfect chain of being,

Dependencies and sustentations, accidents, and qualities, and powers:

And each must fly forward in the curve, unto which it was forced from the beginning;

Each must attract and repel, or the monarchy of order is no more.

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God,

And they radiate from that sun to the circling edges of creation.

Verily the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws,

And God is the primal grand example of free unrestrained obedience;

Martin F. Tupper.

Adam’s foul revolt

From the primeval law, on all his sons,

Through every age, the sad inheritance

Of sin and death entailed.

Samuel Hayes.