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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Ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.—Romans, xiii. 5.

Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.—I. Timothy, iii. 9.

Purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.—Hebrews, ix. 14.

We trust we have a good conscience.—Hebrews, xiii. 18.

Guilt still alarms, and conscience, ne’er asleep,

Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud but deep;

While the vexed mind her own tormentor flies,

A scorpion scourge unmark’d by human eyes!

Trust me no tortures that the poets feign,

Can match the fierce, the unutterable pain