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 that I may thereby the better see

How weak I am, when not upheld by Thee!

Thomas Ellwood.

WEALTH.

Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, Wealth and riches shall be in his house.—Psalm cxii. 1, 3.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.—Proverbs, xiii. 11.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.—I. Corinthians, x. 24.

I have no guide those honours to obtain,

Which men might heretofore by virtue gain;