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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WITNESS.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.—Proverbs, xiv. 5.

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.—I. John, v. 9, 10.

In ocean’s wide domains,

Half buried in the sands,

Like skeletons in chains

With shackled feet and hands.

Beyond the fall of dews,

Deeper than plummet lies,