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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Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.—Matthew, iii. 2, 8.

Repent ye, and believe the gospel.—Mark, i. 15.

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.—Acts, iii. 19.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.—Acts, xvii. 30.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.—II. Corinthians, vii. 10.

Confess yourself to Heaven;

Repent what’s past; avoid what is to come;

And do not spread the compost on the weeds

To make them ranker.

Shakspere.