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TEMPLE.

Confusion now hath made his master-piece!
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o' the building.

MACBETH ii. 3.

TEMPT.

Withhold thine indignation, mighty Heaven,
And tempt us not to bear above our power!

KING JOHN, v. 6.

THANKSGIVING.

Poor soul! God's goodness hath been great to thee: Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,

But still remember what the Lord hath done.

2 HENRY VI. ii. 1.

O upright, just, and true-disposing God,

How do I thank Thee.

RICHARD III. iv. 4.

THOUGHTS.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.

HAMLET, iii. 3.

Holy Writ.

All the city was

and they took Paul,

TEMPLE.

moved, and the people ran together: and drew him out of the Temple; and forthwith the doors were shut, and they went about to kill him.

TEMPT.

ACTS, xxi.

There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able.

1 CORINTHIANS, X.

THANKSGIVING.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers, with pure conscience, that, without ceasing, I have remembrance of thee in my prayers, night and day.

2 TIMOTHY, i.

While I live will I praise the Lord; yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God.

PSALM CXlvi.

Being enriched in every thing, to all bountifulness, which

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THRONE.

God, and His angels, guard your sacred throne,
And make you long become it!

HENRY V. i. 2.

TIME.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time ;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.

MACBETH, V. 5.

TRANSGRESSION.

Heaven, lay not my transgression to my charge!

KING JOHN, i. 1.

TROUBLOUS WORLD.

So part we sadly in this troublous world,

To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.

3 HENRY VI. v. 5.

TRUTH.

Methinks, the Truth should live from age to age, As 't were retail'd to all posterity,

Even to the general all-ending day.

RICHARD III. iii. 1.

Holy Writ.

THRONE.

And I heard the voice of many angels, round about the Throne.

TIME.

REVELATION, v.

A thousand years, in Thy sight, are but as yesterday ; all our days are passed away, and we spend our years as a tale that is told.

TRANSGRESSION.

PSALM XC.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

TROUBLOUS TIMES.

PSALM XXxii.

From the going forth of the commandment, to restore Jerusalem; in three-score and two weeks it shall be built again; the street, and the wall, even in troublous times.

TRUTH.

DANIEL, ix.

The Lord is good: His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endureth to all generations.

PSALM C.

The truth of the Lord endureth for ever.

PSALM CXvii.

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VAIN GLORY.

Most miserable

Is the desire that 's glorious: Blessed be those,
How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,

Which seasons comfort.

CYMBELINE, i. 7.

VENGEANCE.

A virgin from her tender infancy,
Chaste and immaculate in very thought:
Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effus'd,
Will cry for vengeance at the gates of Heaven.

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I, with submissive loyalty of heart,
Ascribe the glory of this conquest got,
First to my God, and next unto your Grace.

O God, Thy arm was here!

1 HENRY VI. iii. 4.

And not to us, but to Thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all * * * take it, God,
For it is only Thine.

HENRY V. iv. 8.

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