. The baptistery, or, The way of eternal life . d, the sick, the desolate;Christs poor their friends, His little ones then* care,—Their self-rewarding toil their brethrens toils to share. 16 THK CHOICE OF LIFE. Yea, Love may give thee wings by social hearthWhich shall outstrip the Heaven-girt anchorite,And virgin choirs removed from scenes of earth;Train thee mid crowded towns to pray aright,To labour and withdraw from things of sight;Till vanities around thy pathway proveSpurs on thy road to Heaven, thy weakness might,While step by step thy ways from earth remove,To that straight path lit up
. The baptistery, or, The way of eternal life . d, the sick, the desolate;Christs poor their friends, His little ones then* care,—Their self-rewarding toil their brethrens toils to share. 16 THK CHOICE OF LIFE. Yea, Love may give thee wings by social hearthWhich shall outstrip the Heaven-girt anchorite,And virgin choirs removed from scenes of earth;Train thee mid crowded towns to pray aright,To labour and withdraw from things of sight;Till vanities around thy pathway proveSpurs on thy road to Heaven, thy weakness might,While step by step thy ways from earth remove,To that straight path lit up by Everlasting Love. Light are their steps, who in lifes earliest dawnThe mountain-tops of Heavenly life ascend,Brushing the dewdrops from the spangled lawn;Nor ever from the straighter path descend,Fixing their eyes upon their journeys end;Sweetest best thoughts are theirs, such as have strivenWith childhood, and with dawning conscience blend,To flee all other love but that of Heaven,Ere weighd to earth with sin and much to be forgiven. % 4. ♦ . IMAGE THE SECOND. 825&D art t&ou fcdaging to tutn t^g^clf unto tfie Sorb <£o&,ant) tn f^tm unto all gooti ? Be immediately turned, O thou sinner, to thy Creator andRedeemer, nor defer to do so, as the Doubtful man [A]. ForDeath, though thou seest him not, is close beside thee. Lo,Jesus is ready to receive thee [B]; behold His wounds, observethe instruments of His sufferings [C], and His most graciousapproaches unto thee. Despise thou the World [D], and herdeceits; detest Sin [E], that most foid monster, and followChrist. And now look to Virtue [F], which the Angel [G]pointeth out to thee, and consider the reward she beareth. Inorder that thou mayest attain unto her and her rewards, betakethyself to contrition for thy sins [H], and confession of them [I];and imitate the examples of penitents [K.] In this way thoushalt be liberated from the yoke of Pharaoh, the spirit of evil, andfrom his bondage; in like manner as the children o
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