REVERENCE.
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God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about Him.—Psalm lxxxix. 7.
He sent redemption unto His people: He hath commanded His covenant for ever: holy and reverend is His name.—Psalm cxi. 9.
We have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence.—Hebrews, xii. 9.
While they pervert pure nature’s healthful rules To loathsome sickness, worthily, since they God’s image did not reverence in themselves. Milton.
Eternal Spirit! grant The wisdom meek, that lives on truth divine However veiled. A waiting mind impart, And in our weakness show our strength to dwell, Like as of old the pensive Mary sat Low at His feet, and listened to her Lord; Absorb’d and self-renouncing, be our soul Before the cross in docile reverence bent. R. Montgomery.
Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own, thy will; And with strength from Him shall thy utter weakness Life’s task fulfil; And that cloud itself, which now before thee Lies dark in view, Shall with beams of light, from the inner glory, Be stricken through. Whittier.
He that to his earthly parent Pays not reverence due, To His great Almighty Father Will be careless too: He whose filial love is mingled With no filial fear, Scarcely will from sad reproaches Keep his conscience clear. Grant me, Lord, to duly mingle Love and fear, that so I revere my parents earthly, And for Thee true reverence know. Egone.