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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Satan, the fowler, who betrays

Unguarded souls a thousand ways.

Watts.

SOLDIERS.

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.—II. Timothy, ii. 3, 4.

Thy life’s a warfare, thou a soldier art,

Satan’s thy foeman, and a faithful heart

Thy two-edged weapon, patience is thy shield,