. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . hould feast The ears of seraphims, and entertain Heavns highest Deity with their lofty strain : A strain well drenchd in the true Thespian well, Till then, earths semiquaver, mirth, farewell. Quarks Emblems, 255 S. August. Med. Cap. infinitely happy are those heavenly virtues, which areable to praise thee in holiness and purity with excessivesweetness, and unutterable exaltation ! from thence theypraise thee, from whence they rejoice, because they continu-ally see for what they rejoice, for what they praise thee
. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . hould feast The ears of seraphims, and entertain Heavns highest Deity with their lofty strain : A strain well drenchd in the true Thespian well, Till then, earths semiquaver, mirth, farewell. Quarks Emblems, 255 S. August. Med. Cap. infinitely happy are those heavenly virtues, which areable to praise thee in holiness and purity with excessivesweetness, and unutterable exaltation ! from thence theypraise thee, from whence they rejoice, because they continu-ally see for what they rejoice, for what they praise thee : butwe, pressed down with this burden of flesh, far removed fromthy countenance in this pilgrimage, and blown up with worldlyvanities, cannot worthily praise thee : we praise thee by faith,not face to face ; but those angelical spirits praise thee face toface, and not by faith. EPIG. I refuse to sing ? Said I, these timesWere not for songs : nor music for these climes ;It was my error : are not groans and tearsHarmonious raptures in th Almightys ears ? ~^-~4JJ. BOOK THE FIFTH
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