. Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man . eye of grace, 1 fhall behold thee, though not face to face. S. AUGUST . Book 5. Emhlems, 295 S. AUGUST, in Pfal. 59. Who created all rhivgs is better than all things:nvho beautified all things is 7?2oye beautiful than allthir^gs: ivho madefire?igth than all things:who made great things is greater than all things:ivhatfoever thou lovefi^ he ?s that to thee: learn tolove the -ivorkman in his --xork, the Creator in hiscreature: Let not that iihich -zvas made by him fofi-fefs thee, lefi thou lofie him by ixh
. Emblems, divine and moral, together with hieroglyphicks of the life of man . eye of grace, 1 fhall behold thee, though not face to face. S. AUGUST . Book 5. Emhlems, 295 S. AUGUST, in Pfal. 59. Who created all rhivgs is better than all things:nvho beautified all things is 7?2oye beautiful than allthir^gs: ivho madefire?igth than all things:who made great things is greater than all things:ivhatfoever thou lovefi^ he ?s that to thee: learn tolove the -ivorkman in his --xork, the Creator in hiscreature: Let not that iihich -zvas made by him fofi-fefs thee, lefi thou lofie him by ixhora thy felf--jcas made. S. AUGUST. Med. cap. 57. 0 thou vtofi fixeet, mofi gracious^ moft amiable^ mofifair, xhenfioall 1 fee thee ? idoen fijall I be fatisfiedivith thy beaiLty ? ^jchen ivilt thou lead me from thisdark dungeon^ that J may coufefs thy namei EPIG art tKou /haded in this veil of night,Behind thy curtain flefli ? thou feeft no light,But what thy pride doth challenge as her own 5Ihy flelli is high ; Soul, take this curtain down. 296 Emblems,XIIL Book jiyaw/ay-atidhcnt reft ; : J . Book 5. Emblems. 297 XIII. PSALM 55. 6. 0 that 1 had the wings of a dove^ for thenI would fy away and be at reji ! AND am I fworn a dunghil-flave for everTo earths bafe drudgry ? /hall I never findA night of reft ? ihall my indentures never Be canceld ? did injurious nature bindMy foul earths *prentice, with no claufe to leave her?No day of freedom ? muft I ever grind?O that I had the pinions of a I might quit my bands, and foar above,And pour my juft complaints before the great Jehove! How happy are the doves that have the powr When eer they pJeafe, to fpread their airy wings!Or cloud-dividing eagles that can towr Above the fcent of thefe inferior things!How happy is the lark, that evry hour Leaves earth, and then for joy mounts up and fings!Had my dull foul but wings as well as would I fpring from earth, and clip away,As wife Jjlnea did, and fcorn th
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