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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As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.—Romans, viii. 36, 37.

And I saw, and behold a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him; and he went forth conquering and to conquer.—Revelations, vi. 2.

The conquered also, and enslaved by war,

Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose,

And fear of God.

Milton.

Well then, my soul, joy in the midst of pain;

Thy Christ, that conquered hell, shall from above

With greater triumph yet return again,