. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . of Heavn obcyM, Undoubtful^of the End what Heavn decreed. As peaceful Slumbers foothd his daily Pains Beneath a Ipreading Oak in BctbePs Plains, The Mtber glows, Angelic Worlds appear. And all the Glories of the dazzling Sphere; A glittring Scroll of Light unlaps its Fire, Down verging to the Earth, on which the Choir Of flaming Seraphs trod j as if the Way Twixt Heavn and Nature in that Sun-beam lay j Above thAlmighty XIN, with all the Hoil Of Light impervious (here Defcriptions lofl) •Utterd a Voice like Waters, fro
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . of Heavn obcyM, Undoubtful^of the End what Heavn decreed. As peaceful Slumbers foothd his daily Pains Beneath a Ipreading Oak in BctbePs Plains, The Mtber glows, Angelic Worlds appear. And all the Glories of the dazzling Sphere; A glittring Scroll of Light unlaps its Fire, Down verging to the Earth, on which the Choir Of flaming Seraphs trod j as if the Way Twixt Heavn and Nature in that Sun-beam lay j Above thAlmighty XIN, with all the Hoil Of Light impervious (here Defcriptions lofl) •Utterd a Voice like Waters, from whence flowd The myftic Wonders of a fuffring God. The ravifhd Patriarch tranfported rofe, Believes the Viiion, and returns his Vows; Thincarnate Deity by Faith he faw, ReverM his Miflion, and obeyd his Law. In vain then Atbeijfis Natures Powr impious Freedom vilely to rlefend ;Nature avows her GOD, his Law receives 3He follows Nature neareft that believes:The Promised Seed from AdauP^y Fall was givn,And Faith the only Means to merit Emblem (97). Emblem WORLD in Full Life, THIS Empty World fupported feeBy Ignorance and Vanity ;Above Self-Love prefei-ves his S^at,Reigning in Epidemic State :Corrupted Nature is his Throne,From whence he rules and guides his own:(a) IViJdom no Btisnefs there can find;Baniflid the Race of Human Kind,His Guardian Genius guides him henceTo Realms of Peace and Ip ( ys ) In vain the common Herd of Tools^ Whom {b) Fortune in her Apron holds. Obedient to the Lafli of ^enjl\ Carp at his Lettcrd Excellence : In vain they rtrive to hold the Sage, He hates a fawning, vicious Age ; He has no Call to keep him here, Cant laugh to hear the Voice of PrayV; Can imitate no reigning Vice, To be thought fafliionably wife; Can neither flatter, cringe, nor court. Nor banter Heavn itfelf in Sport j Condemns no Truth, no Crime commends, Confcicncc and He are faithful Friends: Then let the furly Creature go, The Wretch has
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