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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EXAMPLE.

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet: ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.—John, xiii. 14, 15.

Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.—I. Timothy, iv. 12.

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.—James, v. 10.

Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.—Jude, i. 7.

Taught this by his example, whom I now

Acknowledge my Redeemer, ever blest!

Milton.