. Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity ... . es that God is love. Heis clad with the Best Robe. He looks with disgust on thepast. He hates the vain pomps and glories of the earth ; is as-tonished at his infatuation, in being so taken up with them ;and yet what he now possesses is but as the drop lo the teem-ing shower. The wealth of eternity av/aits him. Balboa could not explore his vast priz
. Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity ... . es that God is love. Heis clad with the Best Robe. He looks with disgust on thepast. He hates the vain pomps and glories of the earth ; is as-tonished at his infatuation, in being so taken up with them ;and yet what he now possesses is but as the drop lo the teem-ing shower. The wealth of eternity av/aits him. Balboa could not explore his vast prize. Had he traversedthe ocean till this time, he would have gone over only a smallportion of it; much of it he would never see. Realms of goldlay gUttering upon its placid margin. Mines of wealth layhidden beneath its purple wave. He had but found the key ofthis magazine of wealth. So the discoverer of Almighty lovecan know but little of his precious prize while here —fathomless—endless, it spreads out before him, andwill ever spread. Here he merely sips of its has but discovered the key of this treasure-house of the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and goodness ofGod! 274 RELIOIOCS ITuy teanaered in deserts.—Ileb. xi. 38. For here ice have no cotcity, but seek one to come.—Heb. xiii. 14. PASSAGE THROUGH THE DESERT. Amid the arid deserts burning sands, The Caravan proceeds, in various bands; Jew, Frank, and Mussulman, in search of gaillf Unite to traverse the destructive plain. The desert drear, more terrible to brave, Than fiirioua tempest, on the ocean wave: BELIGIOrS ALLEGORIES. 275 The sky a molten dome of quivring heat;The earth a farnace, glows beneath the feet;The wild waste echoes as they move along,With laugh of humorous tale, or Toice of , and united, they no danger fearFrom lion prowlirng, nor from robbers spear;But other foes oft-times gainst them advance,More to be dreaded than the Arabs lan
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