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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OBEDIENCE—DISOBEDIENCE.

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.—Romans, v. 19.

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?—Romans, vi. 16.

Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.—Hebrews, v. 8.

The will of heav’n

Be done in this and all things! I obey.

Shakspere.

Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit

Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste