. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . jEjssjpsUST we upon the Pismire go to school,IbmuS H r^° ^earn °I ner m summer to providejjWHt! For winter next ensuing; man s a fool, Or silly ants would not be made his , sluggard, is it not a shame for thee To be outdone by pifmires ? Prythee, hear :Their works, too, will thy condemnation be, When at the judgment-seat thou shalt since thy God doth bid thee to her go, Obey, her ways consider, and be wife:The Pifmires will inform thee what to do, And set the way to life before thine eyes. FOR YOUTH. 73 XXXIV. UPON
. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . jEjssjpsUST we upon the Pismire go to school,IbmuS H r^° ^earn °I ner m summer to providejjWHt! For winter next ensuing; man s a fool, Or silly ants would not be made his , sluggard, is it not a shame for thee To be outdone by pifmires ? Prythee, hear :Their works, too, will thy condemnation be, When at the judgment-seat thou shalt since thy God doth bid thee to her go, Obey, her ways consider, and be wife:The Pifmires will inform thee what to do, And set the way to life before thine eyes. FOR YOUTH. 73 XXXIV. UPON THE E wants, he asks, he pleads his poverty,They within doors do him an alms denyHe doth repeat and aggravate his grief;But they repulfe him, give him no relief. He begs, they say, Begone : he will not hear,He coughs and sighs, to shew he still is there;They disregard him, he repeats his groans;They still say nay, and he himself call him vagrant, and more rugged grow;He cries the shriller; trumpets out his woe. 74 DIVINE EMBLEMS At laft, when they perceive he 11 take no nayAn alms they give him without more delay. COMPARISON. The beggar doth resemble them that prayTo God for mercy, and will take no nay :But wait, and count that all his hard gainlaysAre nothing elfe but fatherly delays :Then imitate him, praying souls, and cry,There \s nothing like to importunity.
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