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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And wounded conscience may receive relief,

When true repentance pleads the sinner’s grief.

Yet flatter not the foul delight of sin,

But make it loathsome in the eye of love,

And seek the heart with holy thoughts to win

Unto the best way to the soul’s behove:

So teach, so live, that both in word and deed

The world may joy thy heavenly rules to read.

Heal the infect of sin with oil of grace,

And wash the soul with true contrition’s tears;