. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . a blind Necellity in Fate,We, wifer grown, from a Diviner Ray,Enjoy the Lumen of a brighter Day jThe Human Soul to nobler Joys extend,Thro Faith to Virtue, thence to Glory tend;.By facred Prudence formd, from Rules Divine,Triumph oer Nature, and Fates Power confine. NOTES on Emblem XII. {a) //frmf; —See before Emb. I. Note (i). (b) Aerial Forms —See Herm. j^mon,. \c) Pythagorean Dreams — See Diog. Laer. i» vit. Plat. (d) Fallfnj^ngel^Ste Not.(a), and Emb. X. Not.(/)(«). (f) Teletary StateSet Emb.
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . a blind Necellity in Fate,We, wifer grown, from a Diviner Ray,Enjoy the Lumen of a brighter Day jThe Human Soul to nobler Joys extend,Thro Faith to Virtue, thence to Glory tend;.By facred Prudence formd, from Rules Divine,Triumph oer Nature, and Fates Power confine. NOTES on Emblem XII. {a) //frmf; —See before Emb. I. Note (i). (b) Aerial Forms —See Herm. j^mon,. \c) Pythagorean Dreams — See Diog. Laer. i» vit. Plat. (d) Fallfnj^ngel^Ste Not.(a), and Emb. X. Not.(/)(«). (f) Teletary StateSet Emb. XV. Note (A). (f) /(Y/7^i —See Plato in Phadro. Lunus arid Lum in the Cut —The Sun and Moon, or, as fumtthink, the MJiival and Hyemal Sun, whom the Palmyrians, and alfothe Ptople ot Gahala, worftiipd under the Names of Heliogabalus^or, as the old Pj/m^rp;»e Infcription has it, ^glaibolus^ znd AJalakBflus, brought by •/wrf/Za^ the Emperor to Rome, where is a Ba^Rtleiv of them in the Gardens oi Farnefe^ a Copy whereof we lee inMr. IVrigbti Italy, Emb ISM (40. iL M B L E M HO W lovely, yet how awful, is that Form ?How fweet the Influence! How ilrong theCharm!Hail! facred Harbinger of Heavenly Reft;Of Virtues, hail! thou Greatelt, and thou Beft :Thy Heart flies upward to the Realms Above;Thy Voice is Prayer, and thy Soul pure Love:Truths hallowd Symbol, in its native Sphere,Shines in thy glowing Breafb; Devotion thereBurns like rich Incenfe, or the (a) Vejlal Fire,Type of Seraphic Flames, and chafl Defire. No (43 ) No glittering Toy?, which weaker Minds Joys of Greatnefs, nor no Charms of Powr,Draw thee from Heavn. Thee Guardian Angels tend,Patron of Widows, and the Orplianc the Firfl Being loves. The firfl formd PairHad neer loft Paradife, hadft thou been there:The Lofs of Thee our ruind Nature Excellence and Virtue wert thou baniflid; but at length returnedOn peaceful Wings; Nature no longer fil
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