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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ADMONITION.

The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.—Jeremiah, xlii. 19.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.—Romans, xv. 14.

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.—I. Corinthians, x. 11.

Thou Power Supreme! who aiming to rebuke

Offenders, dost put off the gracious look,

And clothe thyself in terrors, like the flood

Of ocean roused into his fiercest mood,

Whatever discipline Thy will ordain

For the brief course that must for me remain;