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There is but One, I know,

That all my hourly, endless wants can meet ; Can shield from harm, recall my wandering feet; My God, thy hand can feed

And day by day can lead

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Yet I shall temper so

Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfied, and thee appease.

Paradise Lost, Book x.

MILTON,

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To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, three in one; Be honor, praise, and glory given,

Where the sweet streams of peace and safety flow. By all on earth, and all in heaven.

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POPE.

DR. I. WATTS.

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Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven in- The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

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Henry IV., Part II. Activ. Sc. 4.

MILTON.

SHAKESPEARE.

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GEORGE HERBERT.

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GEORGE HERBERT.

O shame, where is thy blush?

Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 4.

SHAKESPEARE

Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,
Ready to pass to the American strand.

The Church Militant.

From Greenland's icy mountains,

From India's coral strand,

Where Afric's sunny fountains

Roll down their golden sand. Missionary Hymn.

CONSCIENCE.

Servant of God, well done.

BISHOP HEBER.

Paradise Lost, Book vi.

MILTON.

SIN.

I see the right, and I approve it too,

As ever in my great taskmaster's eye.
On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three.

Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. And sure the eternal Master found

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MILTON.

DR. S. JOHNSON.

And whipped the offending Adam out of him.

Henry V., Acti, Sc. 1.

SHAKESPEARE.

Leave her to Heaven,

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And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

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Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. Built God a church, and laughed his word to

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Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long :
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets
strike,

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true. No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,

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So hallowed and so gracious is the time.

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