. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . upon,And many Pleafures yields 5tteasd we behold the glorious Sun, When he his Face reveals :But neither Earth nor Sun can giveSuch Joy8 as I from God receive. The Sea and Air are both replete With various Delights,The Dainties we colledand:eat ;• The Days are bleiYd with Nights:But Sea nor Air, nor Fifh nor Fowl,Give Food to an immortal Soul. My Eyes the fpacious Heavens rove I •Its beauteous Orbs I view ;I fee, methinks, above* And
. Emblems and hieroglyphics on a great variety of subjects, moral and Emblished with near an hundred emblematical cuts from Quarles Emblems . upon,And many Pleafures yields 5tteasd we behold the glorious Sun, When he his Face reveals :But neither Earth nor Sun can giveSuch Joy8 as I from God receive. The Sea and Air are both replete With various Delights,The Dainties we colledand:eat ;• The Days are bleiYd with Nights:But Sea nor Air, nor Fifh nor Fowl,Give Food to an immortal Soul. My Eyes the fpacious Heavens rove I •Its beauteous Orbs I view ;I fee, methinks, above* And glorious Angels too :Yet there I would not to be,If there my Goi> I could not fee. The MoralJnnumberM BlefTmgsGoD on us bellows,ind the fweet Comforts of the World allows ret as he gives, he takes, and tempers fo,hat we may reft on nothing here below. le fhews their Emptinefs a thoufand Ways,.hat We to Him alone may give the in Him lei f true Happinefs is found,^nd iolid Joys in Heavn alone abound.\\\ the good Things on Earth we fhould improvem fit us for the blifs&I State above. 140 HlEROGLYPHICKS, Book V, EMBLEM Trouble, and Care, and Sin and Strife,Fill up the Chriflians Round of may he wifh to be releasd,And of a happier Portion feizd. Book V, Moral and Divine. 141 EMBLEM VII. This a troublefome World. MY Troubles multiply,And Sorrow is my Lot 5Theres nothing that I hear or fee,But grieves my vexed Thought. Pleafures, which Men purfueWith fo much Eagernefs,Have Stings, which ever make them rue,And poifon all their Blifs. Riches and Honours haveEach their Anxiety ;From Pain and Labour, Death and Grave,No Man can fay, hes free. The Moral. low fad and tirefome is the World to him,Vho on a Life to come has built his Scheme!iow dead and taftelefs are the Joys that greetiis alterd Fancy !—he has found the and Riches, and fuch coltly Things,ie quits unenvyd to the Great and Kings,Vith all the Guilt and Trouble them attend,tf
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