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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And vast destruction come;

The creatures—look, how old they grow,

And wait their fiery doom!

Watts.

DEVOTION—DEVOUT.

No devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.—Leviticus, xxvii. 28.

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.—Acts, x. 2.

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.—Acts, xvii. 23.

An aged holy man,