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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Through all the globe, there is no clime which they

Can call their own, no country where their laws

Hold sovereign rule. Irrefragable proof,

That every oracle of Holy Writ

Was given by Heaven itself!

Samuel Hayes.

JORDAN.

And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where.—Genesis, xiii. 10.

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan.—Jeremiah, xii. 5.