. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . MBLEM XUI. Trufo in God the greatejl Safety, WHEN Storms tempefluous rage around;And on thy leaky Veflei beat;When raging Winds thy Rigging wound,And thou canft hardly keep thy Feet: Happy if then thy Anchor holds, Thy Veffcl tight amidft the Storm ;The Wind that now thy Courfe controuls,With all its Roar (hall do no Harm. Thus he who puts his Truft in God, In Danger certain Safety finds ;Malice may throw her Gall abroad, Secure he laughs at h
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . MBLEM XUI. Trufo in God the greatejl Safety, WHEN Storms tempefluous rage around;And on thy leaky Veflei beat;When raging Winds thy Rigging wound,And thou canft hardly keep thy Feet: Happy if then thy Anchor holds, Thy Veffcl tight amidft the Storm ;The Wind that now thy Courfe controuls,With all its Roar (hall do no Harm. Thus he who puts his Truft in God, In Danger certain Safety finds ;Malice may throw her Gall abroad, Secure he laughs at her Defigns. The Mora l. What is the greateft Good this World can boaft?Riches and how quickly loft!Friends too are often treacherous and bafe ;Beauty is waning ; Strength with Age folid Lifting Happinefs we find]n all thofe Pleafures which bewitch Mankind,Thefe then rejected, let us next exploreThofe Treafures which Religion has in is alone an everlafting Good,Worthy alone to be by Man love Him, and obey his Will,And Joys immortal ihall thy wifhes z 124 HlEROGLYPHICKS, Book IV, EMBLEM Our Saviours Crofs, that curfed Tree IWhat genVous Fruits it bears for me !How grateful is its Shadow now !It yields Jlepaft and Pleafure too. Book IV. Moral and Di vi n e. 125 EMBLEM XIV. Cant. ii. 3. Christ the moft delightful Shadow. ITTHEN the Sun darts his fcorching BeamsVV Dire&ly on our Heads, We flieltef in the Woods or Streams,And fly from parched Meads. Thus when the broken Laws require The Vengeance of a Gop,To what ftrong Rock mail Man retire, That yields a fafe Abode ? Jesus, our Saviour, on the Tree, Yields a delightful Shade ; i Securely there we reft, and be Of Vengeance not afraid. The Moral. Wondef of Love ! furpalfing Reafons Eye ! Tis Godlike all! and fuits the Deity ! Shall Man rebellious, break his Makers Laws? Unforcd, prefumptuoufly, without a Caufc f / And yet find Mercy ? Can it ever be ? Does Juftice fleep ?
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