. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries ... . Though he that hath among them, his Delight,Brave things imagines them (becaufc they blindeWithfomefalfe Luftrehis beguiled fight)He thats above them, their meane- Worth may finde. Lord, to that Blejfed-Station me conveyWhere I may view the World, and view her fo,That I her true Condition may furvey ■And all her Imperfe&ions rightly me, that once there was a DayWhen thou didft weane me from them with content,Evn when fhut up within
. A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries ... . Though he that hath among them, his Delight,Brave things imagines them (becaufc they blindeWithfomefalfe Luftrehis beguiled fight)He thats above them, their meane- Worth may finde. Lord, to that Blejfed-Station me conveyWhere I may view the World, and view her fo,That I her true Condition may furvey ■And all her Imperfe&ions rightly me, that once there was a DayWhen thou didft weane me from them with content,Evn when fhut up within thofe Gates I layThrough which the Flague-infitcling Angel , let me ftill remember, that an HourcIs hourely comming on, wherein I fhall(Though I had all the World within my powre)Be naked ftripr, and turned out of minde me, chiefcly,that I never cleaveToo clofely to my Selfe j and caufe thou me,Not other Earthly things alone to leave,But to forfake my Selfe for love of Thee: That I may fay, now 1 have all things left, Before that I of all things, am bereft. To To bim abappy Lot befalls Tbathatb a Ship, Wprofprous Gales. n. ILLVSTR. XIII. Book. i. lO wonder he a profprous Fey age findesf hit hath bothSailesandOarestoferve his rurne,rAnd,ftill,rhrough meanes of fomc propitious WindsIs to his wifhed H arbour ,Cwih\y is it much admird, if they thatlackeThofe aydes(on which the Common faith depends,)Are from their hoped aymes repelled backe,Or made to labour for unfruitfull neither in the Ship, Wind, Oares, or Saiks,Nor in the want of Outward meanes, alone,Confifts it, that our Hope fuccccdes or failes;But, moft. in that, which Men leaft thinke , feme endeavour, and their Paincsare bledWith Gales which are fo fortunate, that theyFly fafe, and fwiftly on, among the belt,Whiffl; others labour, and are caftaway. Some others,on this Worlds widcOcean floare,And neither Wind, nor Tide affiftant have,Nor Saile^ nor Oare, nor Anchor, nor found B
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