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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WORSHIP.

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.—Psalm xcvi. 9.

In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.—Mark, vii. 7.

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.—John, iv. 23.

First worship God; he that forgets to pray

Bids not himself good-morrow nor good-day:

Let thy first labour be to purge thy sin,

And serve Him first, whence all things did begin.

Thomas Randolph.