. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . ) - £mk Z4«. Tranfitm Celer efl^ ^5 avoJamws, TkQ divine md Moral. 95. THE Twenty-fourth EmblemlUuftrated. Wherever rve are the Heavens are near^Let us but fij a»d rve are there. WHy with a trembling Faintnefs fhoud wefearThe Face o^Deaths, and fondly linger here,As if we thought the Voyag
. Choice emblems, divine and moral, antient and modern, or, Delights for the ingenious, in above fifty select emblems , curiously ingraven upon copper-plates : with fifty pleasant poems and lots, by way of lottery, for illustrating each emblem to promote instruction and good counsel by diverting recreation . ) - £mk Z4«. Tranfitm Celer efl^ ^5 avoJamws, TkQ divine md Moral. 95. THE Twenty-fourth EmblemlUuftrated. Wherever rve are the Heavens are near^Let us but fij a»d rve are there. WHy with a trembling Faintnefs fhoud wefearThe Face o^Deaths, and fondly linger here,As if we thought the Voyage to be goneLay thro the Shades of Styx or Acheron ?Or that we either were to travel downTo uncouth Dephs^ or up feme Heights unknown ?Or to fome place remote, whofe nearefl: endIs farther than Earths Limits do extend ? It 9 6 Choice Emhlems^ It is not by one half that Diftance thitherWhere Death lets in, as it is any whither:Jn o not by half fo far as to your Bed,Or to that Pktce where you fhould reft your Head :If on the Ground you laid your felf (ev*n there)Where at this Moment you abiding EmUem fhews (if well you look thereon)That from your Glafs cf Life which is to run,Theres but one Step to Deaths and that you treadAl OJtce among the Living and the 7)ead. In whatfoever Litfid we live or die^God is the fame; and Heavn is there as nigh,As in that ^lace whe
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