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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J. Burbidge.

BONDAGE.

The bondage was heavy upon this people.—Nehemiah, v. 18.

They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free.—John, viii. 33.

And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land: and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.—Acts, vii. 6.

The creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.—Romans, viii. 21.

Put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.—Colossians, iii. 14.

Deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.—Hebrews, ii. 15.

Get up, my soul; redeem thy sluggish eyes