. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . l Preience was a welcome Guefl:;There in his living Temple of the MindThe radiant (a) Shechi?iah for Incenle ever burnd; Devotion thereWas the lovd Vidim, deckt in humble Prayr jHarmonious Piety ftill fed the Flame,While evry Soul believd and hopd the fame ;Grace fmild in All, All burnd with equal Love,And with united Zeal fought the bright Realms Above. NOTE 0?t E M B L E M XL. {a) Shechinah—Was a Term usd to denote the Divine PrefenceTcn^aining in the Holy of Holies over the Mercy Scat of the firltT
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . l Preience was a welcome Guefl:;There in his living Temple of the MindThe radiant (a) Shechi?iah for Incenle ever burnd; Devotion thereWas the lovd Vidim, deckt in humble Prayr jHarmonious Piety ftill fed the Flame,While evry Soul believd and hopd the fame ;Grace fmild in All, All burnd with equal Love,And with united Zeal fought the bright Realms Above. NOTE 0?t E M B L E M XL. {a) Shechinah—Was a Term usd to denote the Divine PrefenceTcn^aining in the Holy of Holies over the Mercy Scat of the firltTemple at yertifaiem j and iroiri thepce apj^lyd to denoe anyirr mediate Prefence or Irradianon of the Divinity ; nut that we are t*fuppole that Place contained the Subltance of the Divine Bting, but«ne of the Shephiroth Divine and Per/eila Luoes iiTuinir irom theInfinite , as the RabHnic Syltem exprelTes it, was at that Timevifibie, or, at lealJ, fomehow more immediately diicernable there acthat Timej lermd by Mofes the hinder Pans of the Divine Bein^, H 4 Emblem XLI. No Reason above FAITH. ONE Evning, as the pious Auftin trodThe Sandy Beach, with Thoughts intent onGOD,His labring Soul myflerious Doubts Faith and Reajon ftruggld in his Breaft;Frail Nature ftrove, (but Nature ftrives in vainTo know what Heavn has neer rcveard to Men)By what Eternal Law of EntityThe One Immortal Effence can be Three ;How Unity can ftream a triple Ray,And Faith to Rcafon juft Obedience pay. As ( l^l ) As mufing thus on Sacred Trutlis he pafsd. On a laborious Youth liis Eyes he cafl; With painful Toil he tryM, but tryM in vain, -y To make a fhallow Sandy Bed contain C The foaming Billows of the boundlefs Main. 3 Forbear^ mijiakcn Bo\\ the Father cryM, Tour fruitlefs T^ajk by Nature* s Law*5 denfd. Why then (And fuddcnly an Angels Face. Shone with Seraphic Light around the Place) Replyd the glittring Form, doJi thou by Senfe Prefume to /can Supreme Intelligence ? They
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