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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Instructed that to God is no access

Without Mediator, whose high office now

Moses in figure bears, to introduce

One greater, of whose day he shall foretell.

Milton.

The mountain rocked round Sinai’s trembling sides;

In gloomy spires the dreadful smoke arose;

Angelic trumpets pierced the ethereal vault;

Wide-echoing thunder rent the conscious air;

Fierce lightning shot its terrors through the sky;