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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Howe’er disguised in its own majesty,

Is littleness; that he who feels contempt

For any living thing, hath faculties

Which he has never used, that thought with him

Is in its infancy.

Wordsworth.

PRIEST.

The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.—Psalm cx. 4.

Such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.