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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Mrs. Barbauld.

ATHEISM.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.—Psalm x. 4.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.—Psalm xiv. 1.

And they say, How doth God know; and is there knowledge in the Most High?—Psalm lxxiii. 11.

Is not God in the height of Heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?—Job, xxii. 12, 13.

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water, and in the water.—II. Peter, iii. 5.

Having no hope, and without God in the world.—Ephesians, ii. 12.