. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . the wrapt desire!For ever ? O, to part so long ! what, neverMeet more ? another year, and then for ever:To quick resolves do resolution wrong;What, part so soon, to be divorcd so long?Things to be done, are long to be debated;Heavns not decayd. Repentance is not dated. Quarles Emblems. I 19 S. AUGUST. Lib. de Util. agen. up, my soul, into the tribunal of thy conscience:there set thy guilty soul before thyself: hide not thyselfbehind thyself, lest GOD bring thee forth before thyself. S. August, in vain i
. Quarles' emblems: illustrated by Charles Bennett and W. Harry Rogers . the wrapt desire!For ever ? O, to part so long ! what, neverMeet more ? another year, and then for ever:To quick resolves do resolution wrong;What, part so soon, to be divorcd so long?Things to be done, are long to be debated;Heavns not decayd. Repentance is not dated. Quarles Emblems. I 19 S. AUGUST. Lib. de Util. agen. up, my soul, into the tribunal of thy conscience:there set thy guilty soul before thyself: hide not thyselfbehind thyself, lest GOD bring thee forth before thyself. S. August, in vain is that washing, where the next sin defileth : hehath ill repented, whose sins are repeated : that stomach isthe worse for vomiting, that licketh up his vomit. hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but hehath not promised repentance to him that sinneth. Epig. Cupid, had this hasty dart,As it has prickd thy fancy, piercd thy heart,T hath been thy friend : O how hath it deceivd thee !For had this dart but killd, this dart had savd
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