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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Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine.—II. Timothy, iv. 2.

He bore his great commission in his look,

But sweetly tempered awe, and softened all he spoke.

He preached the joys of Heaven, and pains of hell,

And warned the sinner with becoming zeal,

But on eternal mercy loved to dwell.

Dryden.

But above all, in her own light array’d,

See mercy’s grand apocalypse display’d!

The sacred book no longer suffers wrong,