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.

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With the heart man believeth unto righteousness.—Romans, x. 10.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.—Ephesians, iii. 17.

I care not, so my kernel relish well,

How slender be the substance of my shell;

My heart being virtuous, let my face be wan,

I am to God, I only seem to man.

Quarles.

So now the soul’s sublimed, her sour desires

Are re-calcined in Heaven’s well-tempered fires;

The heart restored, and purged from drossy nature,